On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 03:01 , John W. Krahn wrote: > José nyimi wrote: >> I tried with directory, it seems to work, but ... why the doc talks >> about files only ??? > > Directories are just "special" types of files (at least they are on > *nix/DOS/Windows.)
we might wish to resever 'special' for things like "block special file" and "character special file" so that when we get to the 'mknod' side of these games folks understand the difference between the special children in the file system and the merely 'different'. vladimir: 137:] perl -e 'print "/dev/null is special \n" if (-c "/dev/null" );' /dev/null is special vladimir: 138:] perl -e 'print "/dev/null is special \n" if (-c "/tmp");' vladimir: 139:] ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
