"Veli-Pekka Tatila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andor Demarteau wrote: >> your ls -al should show it. > Well, it doesn't seem to do that. Does this mean that those DSP links > are there but are not pointing to any file in particular, if that's > even possible? Here's the relevant output: > celeron:~# ls -al /dev/dsp* > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp1 > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp2 > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp3
No, that simply means they are no links, /dev/dsp* are character device files (that is what the "c" at the beginning of the ls output indicates.) In a sense, however, what you say is true, since those character device files essentially "point" to a kernel resource which isn't there. -- CYa, Mario
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