Em Sexta 14 Dezembro 2001 16:32, you wrote: > Bruno A. C. Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oops. I'm sorry. I thought he was just trying to create a special > > device called kbd (I misunderstood kdb). > > In GNU/Hurd these "special files"/"device files" in /dev are simply > files, which are associated with translators. It's not like in Unix, > where the major/minor numbers of "special files" created with mknod > identify the driver for that file. In GNU/Hurd you simply install > passive translators on these files. > > moritz
> It's kbd, but there are no "special devices" in the Hurd :) > Everything is backed by a user space server program. > Marcus Thank you for the explanation. As you can see, I'm just a Linux user trying to understand (and use) The Hurd. :) Bruno Costa _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
