RE: /dev/null question

[Andrew So hing-pong <andrewso firstecom com>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> 
> On 10-Aug-00 Jake McHenry wrote:
> > 
> > I was just rewriting my login script, and started exploring, and found
> > something
> > that I didn't recognize. I've looked in the man pages of chmod for what I'm
> > looking for, but didn't find it. Anyway, here is it.
> > 
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     system         0 Apr 13 13:55 /dev/nul
> > crw-rw-rw-   1 root     system     2,  2 Aug 09 22:04 /dev/null
> > crw-rw-rw-   1 root     system    13, 27 Dec 11 1999  /dev/nuls
> > crw-r----T   1 root     system     3,  0 Dec 11 1999  /dev/nvram
> > ^
> >|
> >|
> >|____ What is that c for? What does it do? Does it keep anything from being
> > written to these files?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jake
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> It means it is a character oriented device rather tahn b for block oriented
> device like /dev/hda1 for example
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c stands for character that means this device is character mode.
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