On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:42:12PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > actually, following up to myself: > > you do need some way to disambiguate between the case of a device > ("bsdlabel ad0") and a file in the current directory ("bdslabel > ad0"). The file takes precedence, because any filename that does not contain any directory elements is assumed to live in the current directory. The shorthand for device special files is secundairy to that, because it's a convenience only. If the device special file is meant, it has to be specified as /dev/ad0 in the example given. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel_at_xcllnt.netReceived on Mon Mar 29 2004 - 22:02:51 UTC
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