Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:11:17 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test6 devfs |
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:54:34PM +0100, James Sutherland wrote: > > > of course `drive' has an unambiguous spelling. > > > > OK, just go into a shop and try buying a pack of 10 floppy drives, instead > > of 10 floppy disks <g> > > which is another good reason for using `drive' instead of `dis[ck]'. > devfs is referring to the drive, not keeping track of each item of > removable media.
At the moment, yes - is this the desired behaviour, though? If you look back at RMS's RFI, an Acorn (Risc OS) style solution to this problem would change this.
James.
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