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Jim Lowe wrote:

hopefully fixed.....

> 
> When using the devfs filesystem, the times for the inode don't
> get updated.  I beleive atime, ctime, and mtime need to be
> enabled for things in the devfs.
> 
> The following example illustrates the problem:
>         % touch `tty`
>         touch: /dev/ttyp0: Inappropriate file type or format
> 
>         -Jim