From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:52:58 -0400 From: serge@euler.Berkeley.EDU serge@euler.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Plan 9 devices Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e095ff4-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950426005258.8DxMzl0oTm5hdHwezOLoMGXJJjsq-NSj5FWjEFQNTIo@z> >What happens in the kernel when i type > $ bind '#T' /dev ? >Which part/function of the kernel creates /dev/kp{ctl|data}? (No, no, I don't think the gasoline was enough. Now, where did I put that napalm? :-) I was just wondering if it's possible to replace '#name' with, e.g. /dri(ver[s])/name (/wet/name? :-) With the latter you can use/get the power of all the standard tools, e.g. ls to see all the available drivers, etc. Of course, if you bind'ed over it, you're out of luck, but the same would happen if you bind'ed over /bin/bind ...