Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 08:29:52 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs oddity? Message-ID: <36088.1033885792@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Oct 2002 15:01:06 %2B1000." <20021006144225.G15291-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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In message <20021006144225.G15291-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Steve Kargl wrote: > >> > In message <20021005221611.GA17396@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Kargl w >> > rites: >> > >root[208] cdcontrol play >> > >cdcontrol: no CD device name specified, defaulting to /dev/cd0c >> > >cdcontrol: /dev/cd0cc: No such file or directory >> > > >> > >Why is an extra "c" appended to cd0c? > >The first "c" is part of the standard name for the whole of a (labelled) >disk device. It's not any "standard name". It is a convention used on a minority of UNIX platforms out there, and it is certainly not "standard" even for BSD based systems. It is also illogical, counter-intuitive and prone to mistakes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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