On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:34:31AM +0200, Einfach Jemand wrote:
> No. As far as I understand it:
> The type (char or block), the major and minor number of the device
> special file and its name are means to activate the corresponding device
> handler ("driver") in the kernel and the bytes are sent to the device
> specified by the file.
Ok. I can at least tell you that the last time I tested an r/o
/dev was at OpenBSD 3.8 or so, and the filesystem was CD9660 rather
than FFS.
It failed. So from that point, until I stopped making live media
images at 5.0, I never tested again. /dev was merely one of a half
dozen r/w filesystems I used with MFS.
