From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265309AbUFRWHW (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:07:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264226AbUFRWC1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:02:27 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:40334 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263775AbUFRV7N (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:59:13 -0400 To: Adrian Almenar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sysfs directories... References: <20040618155117.0bffd01d@er-murazor.conectium.com> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: I want another RE-WRITE on my CAESAR SALAD!! Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:54:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040618155117.0bffd01d@er-murazor.conectium.com> (Adrian Almenar's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:51:17 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Almenar 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."