6 Feb
2018
6 Feb
'18
11:56 p.m.
Aren't the major numbers just an index into the device driver table?
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 03:56:41PM +0000, ron minnich wrote:
these were in by the time I can along but I was
wondering when they got it.
They've also always felt a bit like a thing that did not fit to me. I'm
pretty sure I was not alone, given that the Unix authors worked out a way
to get rid of them in later efforts. I know what came after, in Plan 9;
what came before, in Unix, that led to special files?
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