Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:13:56 +1100 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs |
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 12:40:13PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Some applications actually stat file to see if it is special device,
Not many.
> and if it is, they handle it 'carefully'. You would break this ones.
Not unless a stat on a devlink returns appropriate information. An lstat would return different information.
It shouldn't perform any differently to a symlink to a device in the current scheme.
Now, if there is software out there that actually goes out looking for block and char devices of certain major/minor numbers or whatever then you fix them. They are probably being a bit rude doing that already.
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