cp weirdness on /dev

[Net Llama!]

On 11/27/03 15:12, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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.

Or both.

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