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On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > One of the fundamentals of Unix is that "everything is a file" and that > you can do everything by reading or writing that file. But /dev/sda/offset=234234,limit=626737537 isn't a file! ls it and see if it's there. writing to files that aren't shown in directory listings is plain evil. I really don't want to explain why. It's extremely messy and unintuitive. It would be better to do this with a file that does exist, for example writing something to /proc/disks/sda/arguments. Then again, I don't even think much of dynamic file systems in the first place. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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