Peter Samuel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Adam McKenna wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:19:33PM -0700, Ihnen, David wrote:
> > > You know, alot of problems with the opposite sex might be easily figured if
> > > we had the log file...
> > >
> > > The computer doesn't say, "well, if you don't know, I'M not going to tell
> > > you!"
> >
> > strace /dev/gf0
>
> A brave man giving himself options for servicing more than one gf. My
> system has /dev/wife with no options for others. In fact, the driver
> will actively hunt down other instances, kill -9 and remove all
> associated files :)
Aparently on some OSes (BSD based apparently) mknod will react badly if
you try and create a /dev/gf{n+1} when a /dev/gf{n} already exists.
Mysterouly a symlink will develope, and before you know it both have
disappeared, usually after a period of no service due to total
consumtion of system resources.
As for the issues with /dev/children or /dev/mistress ... well I'll shut
up.
I have enjoyed this thread - Thanks.
Greg Cope
>
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