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From: jlee@sobeco.com (j.lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: more than one inode per device?
Summary: is it safe to have multiple inodes for the same device?
Message-ID: <1991May24.142146.28886@sobeco.com>
Date: 24 May 91 14:21:46 GMT
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Running /dev/MKDEV script on our system seems to invoke "mknod" more than
once using the same type/major/minor arguments with different names.  This
will result in several different inodes being assigned for the same device.
Is this always safe, or can some devices get confused if openned/closed via
more than one inode at once?

Jeff Lee -- jlee@sobeco.com || jonah@cs.toronto.edu