Re: date reset on a /dev/ file
On Sunday 10 February 2002 07:12 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote:
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>> no offence, but that's really not the significant issue.
>
> Well, it might be. For instance, if you're trying to cat a device file
> corresponding to your microphone, but you don't have a soundcard, you
> will get something like "no such device". The "file" is just a handle to
> the device; reading from it makes the kernel do some magic to transfer
> data from the physical device to the file output stream.
>
good point--just, in this case, it really isn't. the file doesn't link to
anything at all. i noticed it on a diff of a backup.
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