From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Adrian Almenar <aalmenar@conectium.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysfs directories...
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:54:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeisdofs5p.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040618155117.0bffd01d@er-murazor.conectium.com> (Adrian Almenar's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:51:17 -0400")
Adrian Almenar <aalmenar@conectium.com> writes:
> i was looking at /sys on my machine yesterday and i found something
> strange.
>
> cd
> /sys/block/hda/device/block/device/block/device/block/device/block/...
> and that continues being almost infinite and recursive, it is normal
> ???
Consult your favourite Unix textbook and look up "symbolic links". Then
look again at /sys/block/hda/device.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-18 19:51 Adrian Almenar
2004-06-18 20:27 ` Chris Wright
2004-06-18 21:54 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-06-18 22:44 ` Greg KH
2004-06-19 8:02 ` V13
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