need terminology help

Duncan Lithgow duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Sat Jul 8 19:06:28 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 00:29 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> device file or device node is best. the term 'device' can mean the
> physical hardware. node is correct (the program used to make these
> files is called 'mknod')  but not widely understood.

Thanks, I'll stick with device file then, seems most easily understood.

Are my references to udev making these nodes incorrect? Should it refer
instead to mknod?

tnx

Duncan
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