Hi Wilkinson,Alex! On Fri, 01 Mar 2002 Wilkinson,Alex wrote: > I am just wondering if you could point me to a decent reference that > explains what major and minor numbers are and what they are used for. Have a look at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/chapter/book/index.html Greetings, Stefan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/