Hi Gary, On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Gary L. Vinyard wrote:
In looking at a list of permissions in a directory listing (ls -l) i've encountered c,s, and b in the first column for entries in the /dev directory. I understand that - means a file, l is a link and d is a directory, what do these other letters indicate? Also, if I try to copy one of these (with a "c" prefix) it does not copy. What's going on?
IIRC, c stands for "character device", b for "block device" and s is a "socket" LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer S.u.S.E. GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Gebhardtstrasse 2 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de</A">http://www.suse.de</A</A>> 90762 Fuerth, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e