On Sunday 10 February 2002 07:12 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] >> no offence, but that's really not the significant issue. >
> Well, it might be. For instance, if you're trying to cat a device file > corresponding to your microphone, but you don't have a soundcard, you > will get something like "no such device". The "file" is just a handle to > the device; reading from it makes the kernel do some magic to transfer > data from the physical device to the file output stream. > good point--just, in this case, it really isn't. the file doesn't link to anything at all. i noticed it on a diff of a backup.
