cp weirdness on /dev

[Joel Hammer]

I am not sure if I understand your question.

I can write directly to machine B's hard drive with anytypes of files, it
seems, except files which are devices or perhaps reside in /dev. It was odd
that cp and ls followed the links that existed in /dev. All very strange.

What is even stranger is that I have never heard about this. Either
there is something odd configured about my setup (seems unlikely, since
machine B is a straight out of the box lindows setup), or, devfs has
some odd quirks not yet worked out.

Joel


> But you can't write directly into a devfs mountpoint, which is what
machine > B has, right?  >