From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 14:54: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45C037BD67; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:53:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10623; Mon, 8 May 2000 16:53:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 16:53:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Warner Losh Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Message-ID: <20000508165348.A9796@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200005082142.PAA80155@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.14i In-Reply-To: <200005082142.PAA80155@harmony.village.org>; from "Warner Losh" on Mon May 8 15:42:01 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 08), Warner Losh said: > In message Matthew Jacob writes: > : Oh, and in the updating of this, don't forget the FreeBSD usage of > : .ctl for tape devices- as far as I know this is the only *BSD that > : has this. > > Which devices use .ctl? sa and ast don't seem to use them now (at > the very least they aren't created by MAKEDEV by default). *.ctl is handy for getting status on a device that another process has open; if I'm dumping to /dev/nrsa0, I can run "mt -f /dev/rsa0.ctl status" on another tty and see what file/block position the tape is at. Dunno if it has any other use :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message