Le 05/03/2021 à 07:48, tito via Dng a écrit : > On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 19:38:49 -0500 > Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > >>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:44:30 +0000 >>> g4sra via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: >>> In my young years I used to tinker with linux distros on floppy >>> disks and there still where eth0, eth1 and so on but no udev, >>> so where did the names came from? >> Ya know, mknod wasn't so bad. The moment inotify was invented, I could >> have created software to create devices with mknod. > Hi, > network interfaces cannot be found in /dev so I would be surprised > if they could be created with mknod. > > C
Here is my interpretation: Historically, there is a property of device special files which is represented by a single bit: these special files represent either a character device or a block device. Devices which do not belong to one of these classes cannot be created by mknod, and do not show up in /dev. -- Didier _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
