--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "K. Bradford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From what little I know about Hurd, it appears that there are passive > > translators set in all the nodes under /dev, and the ls command brings > > them alive. This does not seem like proper behaviour and I don't remember > > this happening when I first installed the system. I have not made any > > changes to /dev or any of the nodes within it, except to run MAKEDEV to > > create the driver nodes I need for my scsi disk. The ptys were already > > there after the install. > > > > Could someone offer any clues ? > > The only clue that can be offered is that this is the correct > behaviour, passive translators become a live when what does a stat() > on them. When running `ls -l' then ls does a stat() on each node > which in turn brings each translator to life. A plain `ls' on the > other hand does not. > > Cheers, > -- > Alfred M. Szmidt > >
Note: ls --color=on will also stat every node. ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
