> There is however second class of files which live in /dev, and for those
> files the names are really up to the system administrator, and are a
> matter between the whims of the system adminsitator and the various
> configuration files which list those devices: /etc/inittab, /etc/fstab,
> etc. Examples of such device names include names for disk drives,
> tapes, cd-roms, and ttys, and so on. Indeed, this is why devfs can
> use device names such as /dev/dsk/... instead of /dev/hda1 without
> causing all hell to break loose.
Anyway, it's a good idea to make the kernel export information on all
existing devices to user space, so that the user can run a program which
takes all the devices and names them accordingly to the local policy.
Have a nice fortnight
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