On Sunday August 17 2003 03:40 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote:
> ed tharp wrote:
> > well they are virtual files,,,, they should be empty
> >
> > and I bet you do have devfs running as long as you are running
> > a pretty recent version of MDK.
>
> I have spent the about the last three hours searching Google
> trying to learn about devfs. I am pretty certain that it is
> running and starts on bootup. However I am confused about virtual
> files and how they work. If a program points to dev/sound/audio
> and there is nothing in the file, how does it get executed? One
> other item of interest is that hardrake identifies my sound card
> correctly. If I go to control center then information then sound
> it does not recognize my sound card. (?)
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Gary
As root, 'service devfsd status' will show if it's running
As to virtual files and what they do, Google 'linux pretend files'
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