On May 15, 2000 at 23:27, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>Sometime Today, Satya assembled some asciibets to say:
[snip ls of /dev/zero*]
>I am not entirely sure whethere zero and zero1 are the same device. They
>may be, but it can't be guaranteed. See the block and character device
>switch tables have separate entries in the kernel. When a system call is
>made to access a special file, the kernel checks if it is a block or
>character file and calls the appropriate service routine.
[root]~# cat /dev/zero1
cend_request: I/O error, dev 01:05 (ramdisk), sector 8192
(and more of the same)
It thinks /dev/zero1 is a ramdisk?? Despite having the same maj/min
numbers as /dev/zero. Maybe it's a kernel thing -- "/dev/zero is a white
hole. /dev/null is a black hole. Damn the numbers."
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