On 04/08/13 04:43, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Le 08/04/2013 02:23, mark a écrit : >> On 04/07/13 19:53, John R. Dennison wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:35:17PM -0400, mark wrote: >>>>> >>>>> ls -l /dev/fd? >>>>> >>>>> What do you see? >>>>> >>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd/ >>> >>> Interesting as that doesn't match the pattern /dev/fd? >>> >>> fd0 should have been shown by the ls -l /dev/fd? pattern so is that a >>> broken link? >>> > > Ok, ll /dev/fd - which is a directory - shows it pointing to > > /proc/self/fd/. Under tghat is 0-3, where 0-2 are links to /dev/pts/0, > > *all* the same. 3 is a link to /proc/5038/fd/, which does not exist. > > you were asked to type > ls -l /dev/fd? > the question mark is part of what you have to type... > Perhaps you didn't understand what I wrote in the paragraph that you cut out. ************************************** >> If "ls -l /dev/fd0*" does not show a series of device nodes try: It does - /dev/fd0, along with all 14 sizes of floppies, of a patter /dev/fd0u<disk capacity> ************************************** Now, if that's not clear enough for you, let me rephrase: /dev/fd0 exists, as does the related ones, as far as I know (note that ll for me is aliased to "ls -laF"). brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 0 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 84 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1040 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 88 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1120 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 28 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1440 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 44 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1680 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 60 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1722 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 76 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1743 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 96 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1760 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 116 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1840 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 100 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1920 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 12 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u360 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 16 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u720 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 120 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u800 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 52 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u820 brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 68 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd0u830 Is that clear enough? mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos