On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 07:04:51PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 25/12/2020 à 18:18, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
> >>> Hearing this thread's perplexity, I long for the days of mknod.
> >> But that wouldn't have helped with the network interfaces, because (in
> >> an un-Unixy way) their names have never
On Saturday 26 December 2020 at 19:04:51, Didier Kryn wrote:
> I guess it's historical: historically there was only character devices and
> block devices, and no provision for other categories, and maybe no provision
> in the bitfields which qualify the associated special files.
Sounds entirely p
Didier Kryn wrote:
> I remember these Apollos. They were shining and ran some brand of
> Unix if I remember well. We had a few in my lab but I never got a chance
> to touch one.
I knew "just about zero" about Unix back then so can't comment on how they
compared with anything else. The OS wa
Le 25/12/2020 à 18:18, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
>>> Hearing this thread's perplexity, I long for the days of mknod.
>> But that wouldn't have helped with the network interfaces, because (in
>> an un-Unixy way) their names have never been file names on the systems
>> we're discussing now.
> I wonder w
On 2020-12-25 18:45, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote:
> I read the suggested shell script to provide an overlay filesystem in
> Raspbian and found nothing that can damage my setup. I will use that
> script. All file writes will directed to RAM.
Can you share a link to those instructions please? Many
Dear dear Ralph,
On 26/12/20 10:49, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
On 26/12 10:19, Simon Walter wrote:
On 12/26/20 2:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:07:57AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:18:55 -0800
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr)
On 26/12 10:19, Simon Walter wrote:
> On 12/26/20 2:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:07:57AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:18:55 -0800
> > > Rick Moen wrote:
> > > > Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr):
> > > >
> > > > > Just to remind, if you
