Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261351AbTEAOoU (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 10:44:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261355AbTEAOoU (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 10:44:20 -0400 Received: from relay02.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.236]:15850 "EHLO relay02.valueweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261351AbTEAOoT (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 10:44:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB1358C.1020808@coyotegulch.com> Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 10:56:12 -0400 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030430 Debian/1.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: /dev Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 465 Lines: 15 Why does /dev include devices that do not exist? Wouldn't it be friendlier to only list existing devices? Or am I missing something obvious? -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/