8 Feb
2018
8 Feb
'18
10:18 p.m.
LOL - I did not write that ;)
On 2/7/2018 7:39 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Arthur Krewat wrote:
My understanding is that udev is an elaboration
on devfs on Linux
that includes a rules engine that supports things like assigning set
names to specific devices, setting permissions, group/user ownership
and the like. [...]
Thanks for that; I only have the Penguin for porting porpoises, not
for daily use. I write stuff on the Mac (because the USB ports are
right in front of me), test it on a known reliable server like
FreeBSD, then go and see what the penguins have broken this time...[*]
[*]
Yes, I do have a certain amount of contempt for a userbase that
blithely ignores and rewrites history to the utter exclusion of Unix,
such as over on Wikipedia where they claimed that they were the first
to use "/dev/fb" to access the frame buffer; I've since corrected that
arrant nonsense.