something strange with devices

[John Vincent]

Hi,

Thanks very much for the list, it looks pretty complete to
me.

There's a strange thing going on though. I saved the list
to "device_names.txt" and then ran

     ls -l `cat device_names.txt`

The ls program successfuly found all the file names on the
list. However, some of them didn't seem to show up as devices,
only as files. When I did

      ls -l `cat device_names.txt` | grep -v ,

to grep removed all lines containing a "," I got the following
output

-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None            0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/dgsocket
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None            0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/streamsocket
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None            0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/tcp
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ None            0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/udp

Which seems to show that these "devices" exist, but they're not
devices, just zero size files!

Any idea what's going on with this ??

Thanks,
/John Vincent.


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