[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > One more comparison. Why do we have the only one 'mknod' utility and > why don't we have separate 'bmknod' (for block devices) and 'cmknod' > (for character devices)?
mknod is just a wrapper around the syscall, which does both. > Do you fill the difference now?! The alghrithms used by the sum programs are very different to each other. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils