In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lars Eggert writes:
>[root@nik: /etc] rm /dev/acd0c
>[root@nik: /etc] umask 0007 && ln -s /dev/acd0c /dev/acd0
>ln: /dev/acd0: File exists
>
>Which is really a strange error, since /dev/acd0c is gone:
Nothing which the kernel has created in /dev/ is really gone
when you rm(1) it, it merely gets hidden.
Think of it as "the kernel has priority in selecting names".
Now, if you had
rm /dev/null
you could recreate it with
mknod /dev/null c 0 0
(the "c 0 0" arguments have to be there, but are ignored).
I guess it's a flaw that you can't recreate the symlink in
a similar fashion.
noted.
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