Karel Kulhavy wrote on Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:52:00AM +0200:
> cd (4) talks about /dev/rcd, but if I do man rcd, I get
> man: no entry for rcd in the manual.
> I think rcd should symlink to cd.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ls /dev/r* | sed 's/[01-9].*//' | uniq
/dev/radio
/dev/raid
/dev/random
/dev/rccd
/dev/rcd
/dev/rd
/dev/rfd
/dev/rmcd
/dev/rmidi
/dev/rraid
/dev/rrd
/dev/rsd
/dev/rst
/dev/rsvnd
/dev/rvnd
/dev/rwd
/dev/rwt

You really want symlinks for
 ccd cd fd mcd midi raid rd sd st svnd vnd wd wt?

That's 13 symlinks for a rather trivial point.

On the other hand, why not?  This is not the first time
people show up here who were confused by raw devices.

Such trivial links do exist in other places, even in places
where it is less likely that newbies stumble on it, e.g.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ls /usr/share/man/cat3/exec*   
/usr/share/man/cat3/exec.0      /usr/share/man/cat3/execlp.0
/usr/share/man/cat3/execl.0     /usr/share/man/cat3/execv.0
/usr/share/man/cat3/execle.0    /usr/share/man/cat3/execvp.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ man 3 LIST_INIT
[ snip a long list ]

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