On 2/21/25 14:45, Dworkin Muller wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:21:45 +0000, Stuart Morrow <morrow.stu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > morrow.stuart> How is it different from flags? > > Well, typically flags are specific to some command, and are documented > somewhere. Also, these get used as the first element in a path, and > are (or seem to be) used mostly in contexts where you're talking about > device-like things but before you have the usual devices per se > available. I.e., I seem to run into them when dealing with trying to > figure out how to tell the boot environment what it should be looking > at. That whole context really isn't very well documented, or at least > the documentation for it isn't available in any obvious place. Very > much in the You Just Gotta Know(TM) category....
This is not quite the case though, /dev/drivers gives you a mapping of the single character names to their "full" names. This name then corresponds to their entry within section 3 of the manual pages. Where you'll find specific documentation of the device interface. Thanks, moody ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tabc159d56e7ead54-Maba55fa4825420a4279f6ba5 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
