On 2001-04-16 18:52, Scott R. Godin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 04/16/2001 10:47 AM, Craig S. Cottingham at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>> (pay no attention to the gremlin in /dev/fd/4 ;-) I wonder what it is.)
>>
>> I think it means that there's no floppy in the drive.
>
> *chuckle* there's no floppy DRIVE ;D (unless that's an older mac hehe)
Yeah. I hit "reply" based on incomplete and misremembered information. I get
a similar (but, not similar enough, it turns out) error whenever I `find /`
as root on my x86 Linux box. That other error message has "fd" in it, too,
and I always casually assumed it was from trying to search the floppy device
-- an assumption which, in hindsight, was naive and ill-formed. (I'm no Unix
guru, but I've administered my own test boxen for a couple of years now, so
you'd think I'd know better.) After having the exit wound in my foot and the
smoking gun in my hand pointed out to me earlier, I revisited that
assumption and discovered that the error was coming from the /proc tree, in
a place that has nothing to do with devices. [1]
So, the final diagnosis is death by sophomoric behavior. :-) I saw "/dev", I
saw "/fd", and leapt to a conclusion. I hereby report to the village pillory
for 500 milliseconds of penance.
[1] For those following along at home, the directory causing the error was
"/proc/6/fd". I know that's information related to the process with PID 6;
I'm assuming (there I go again :-) that it has something to do with the file
descriptors used by that process.
--
Craig S. Cottingham
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