From 42ee45d4cf6ff21b4ede919088217ad930cab72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eitan Adler Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:12:14 +0000 Subject: There is no need to explicitly mention the lack of a need to create device nodes. --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.xml') 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 Most devices in a &os; must be accessed through special files called device nodes, which are located in /dev. - - - Creating Device Nodes - - When adding a new device to your system, or compiling - in support for additional devices, new device nodes must - be created. - - - <literal>DEVFS</literal> (DEVice File System) - - The device file system, DEVFS, - provides access to the kernel's device namespace in the - global file system namespace. Instead of having to - manually create and modify device nodes, - DEVFS automatically maintains this - particular file system. Refer to &man.devfs.5; for - more information. - - -- cgit v1.2.3