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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM is really a pseudoterminal??
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 00:52:01 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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- References: <5435@daily-planet.concordia.ca> <1992Nov12.135412.18066@prl.dec.com> <BxMCny.DAw@newsflash.concordia.ca>
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- In article <BxMCny.DAw@newsflash.concordia.ca> smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
- >I hate to disagree with Boyd Roberts, as he obviously knows what he's
- >talking about (as demonstrated in many other posts to this group,
- >among others).
-
- And you shouldn't...
-
- >Now *that* is news to me, but then as I mentioned in a previous post, I
- >make no pretensions toward being a kernel hacker.
-
- It's not really news to anyone with much kernel hacking experience.
- It's been that way since at least V7.
-
- >It may be that pff incorrectly assumes that any two devices with
- >identical major and minor numbers are necessarily the same device. *I*
- >certainly thought so :-)
-
- Yup, incorrect assumption..
-
- >I notice that ofiles (which I didn't run yesterday) reports that nobody
- >is using /dev/rz5c, even though pff still finds the telnet process on
- >ptyra.
-
- Don't worry about the pty; it has nothing to do with your problem.
-
- >So what's left? I still think that "recycling" major and minor numbers
- >is a particularly strange thing to do, but if it really has no bearing
- >on my case, what does?
-
- Why would you think this is strange? As Boyd noted in a prior
- article, there are two distinct switch tables, one for character
- special devices and one for block special devices.
-
- >It's definitely not that the mount point directory is busy. I can't
- >find any other processes using the "real" /dev/rz5c. So why won't
- >mount do what I want it to do?
-
- I dunno.. did the CDROM autoconfig when you booted?
-
- louie
-