On 6 February 2018 at 20:40, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
Are you refering to specdev when Solaris when file system crazy and everything was it's own file system. 

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Speaking of all this. ..  Didn't Solaris symlink the device files into some
magic file system path rather than using the older major/minor special of
the traditional UNIX?


Have you looked at an Android phone?
root@quark:/ #mount | wc -l
27

What they are isn't really important.  Why on earth does my phone need 27 mounted devices, or pseudo-devices?

-Henry