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Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....
On Sep 5 21:59, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:29:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>It really isn't worth the effort to implement this. Eventually, /dev
> >>will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now, I thought
> >>it would be useful for it to show up in / to stop the "/d<tab> doesn't
> >>show up in command line completion" complaints.
> >>
> >>If I've just traded the command line completion complaints for the
> >>above I guess it wasn't a very good trade.
> >
> >Unfortunately, command line completion on /d<tab> is pretty useless
> >unless you can also do /d<tab>nu<tab> and get /dev/null.
>
> Let me see if I can say it in another way to avoid YA loop on this
> subject.
>
> Eventually, /dev will be populated with appropriate stuff so that "ls
> /dev" will work. It won't be in 1.5.19 but it may be in 1.5.20.
>
> Think "devfs" or "udev".
As long as we can stick with the ability to create arbitrary files in
/dev like, for instance, syslogd's /dev/log local socket or the typical
/dev/tape symlink used by mt(1).
Corinna
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