Re: devlinks: an alternative to devfs

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:54:26 +1100

On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 11:23:34AM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> "=>" is used by ls to show a devlink, rather than "->". It also
> requires a modified ls. You may also need to modify other programmes
> which have directory browsers. I guess GNU tar would also need
> changes.

You don't NEED to change any software but it would be nice eg ls.
I don't see any changes to tar being needed. tar stores the name and
permissions and then restores them. Everything about the device is in the
destination name. And tar already supports symlinks to nonexistant files

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