eckes said: > its a map between Minor/Major Device numbers and Device Names. This is > needed for programs like ps which want to print the device names for given > inodes. This table is created automatically, if you run "ps" (from the > procps package in the base) the first time. This speeds up ps a big time and > reduces the amount of 'stats' in the /dev/ directory on the following > invokations of ps.
I guess it doesn't work, then. I've got a 12288 byte file full of zeros. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld
