Scott Barker writes: > 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.
I don't even have it :-( Why? Was it removed from the latest base package installation proc.? YA.
