"Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net> writes:
> If you mean in the more general sense of `possibly a long time, before
> the current boot, possibly even by a different OS accessing the same
> disk', then that's marginally true (modulo symlinks), but it's not
> terribly interesting.

It's not even "marginally" true, is it?

mknod isn't going to cause the device nodes created to be opened.
(that'd be hell on tapes.  8-)



cgd
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