[TUHS] Device special files

[Henry Bent]

On 6 February 2018 at 20:40, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Are you refering to specdev when Solaris when file system crazy and
> everything was it's own file system.
> ᐧ
>
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
>> Speaking of all this. ..  Didn't Solaris symlink the device files into
>> some
>> magic file system path rather than using the older major/minor special of
>> the traditional UNIX?
>>
>>
Have you looked at an Android phone?
root at quark:/ #mount | wc -l
27

What they are isn't really important.  Why on earth does my phone need 27
mounted devices, or pseudo-devices?

-Henry
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