7 Mar
2018
7 Mar
'18
13:05
Wols Lists wrote:
On 07/03/18 09:05, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
James Knott wrote:
I thought everything on *nix was supposed to be a file. Yes, my thought, too.
Except when it's not. Like networking, for example.
But files can be both character (sequential access) or block (direct access). So ttyS0 is a sequential (character) file, while sda is a block (direct access) file.
Yes, sure. But the point was that this should not matter when just changing the permissions, which is what the 'z' was supposed to do. But probably it was indeed a timing issue, as Andrei suspected. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org