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| author | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-06-01 16:12:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-06-01 16:12:14 +0000 |
| commit | 42ee45d4cf6ff21b4ede919088217ad930cab72f (patch) | |
| tree | 8eefc68e5100e6952e1084803dddbefc2d832372 /en_US.ISO8859-1/books | |
| parent | af8866d58edc79c561edf28707360129771f731e (diff) | |
| download | doc-42ee45d4cf6ff21b4ede919088217ad930cab72f.tar.gz doc-42ee45d4cf6ff21b4ede919088217ad930cab72f.zip | |
There is no need to explicitly mention the lack of a need to create device nodes.
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml index 0aa6635bb3..3a5544e5ed 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml @@ -2388,26 +2388,6 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse <para>Most devices in a &os; must be accessed through special files called device nodes, which are located in <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>.</para> - - <sect2> - <title>Creating Device Nodes</title> - - <para>When adding a new device to your system, or compiling - in support for additional devices, new device nodes must - be created.</para> - - <sect3> - <title><literal>DEVFS</literal> (DEVice File System)</title> - - <para> The device file system, <literal>DEVFS</literal>, - provides access to the kernel's device namespace in the - global file system namespace. Instead of having to - manually create and modify device nodes, - <literal>DEVFS</literal> automatically maintains this - particular file system. Refer to &man.devfs.5; for - more information.</para> - </sect3> - </sect2> </sect1> <sect1 id="binary-formats"> |