Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263205AbUAEQgO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:36:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264484AbUAEQgN (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:36:13 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44417 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263205AbUAEQgL (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:36:11 -0500 To: Rob Landley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word References: <20040103040013.A3100@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <200401042148.24742.rob@landley.net> <20040105151303.GA30849@mark.mielke.cc> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: My FAVORITE group is "QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS"... Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:36:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040105151303.GA30849@mark.mielke.cc> (Mark Mielke's message of "Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:13:03 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 20 Mark Mielke writes: > There are a few cases that we might be forced to maintain regular > numbers: mkfifo() creates a named pipe, and bind() creates a named > socket. Neither fifos nor sockets are devices. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - 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/