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Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:29:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>It really isn't worth the effort to implement this.  Eventually, /dev
>>will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now, I thought
>>it would be useful for it to show up in / to stop the "/d<tab> doesn't
>>show up in command line completion" complaints.
>>
>>If I've just traded the command line completion complaints for the
>>above I guess it wasn't a very good trade.
>
>Unfortunately, command line completion on /d<tab> is pretty useless
>unless you can also do /d<tab>nu<tab> and get /dev/null.

Let me see if I can say it in another way to avoid YA loop on this
subject.

Eventually, /dev will be populated with appropriate stuff so that "ls
/dev" will work.  It won't be in 1.5.19 but it may be in 1.5.20.

Think "devfs" or "udev".

cgf

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