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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 20 Dec 1996 16:23:53 GMT
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borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) wrote:

> > (the Solaris device file system is awfully confusing)
> 
> The nice feature is that device entries are generated automatically
> during the boot phase (with the reconfiguration flag). You'll find the
> traditional names under /dev/ and the hardware device names under
> /devices. I do not know what you consider awfully confusing here.

That there's not everything under /dev.  Like for example Data
General's DG/UX used to do it for at least 5 years now.  Like
FreeBSD's (not yet finalized) DEVFS is going to do, too.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j