Re: /etc/psdevtab?

[Yves Arrouye <arrouye@marin.fdn.fr>]

Scott Barker writes:
 > eckes said:
 > > its a map between Minor/Major Device numbers and Device Names. This is
 > > needed for programs like ps which want to print the device names for given
 > > inodes. This table is created automatically, if you run "ps" (from the
 > > procps package in the base) the first time. This speeds up ps a big time and
 > > reduces the amount of 'stats' in the /dev/ directory on the following
 > > invokations of ps.
 > 
 > I guess it doesn't work, then. I've got a 12288 byte file full of zeros.

I don't even have it :-( Why? Was it removed from the latest base package
installation proc.?

YA.