The Great "Hard Return" Debate

[Steve Lamb]

Friday, November 05, 1999, 1:31:46 PM, Jay wrote:
> I would argue that the CDROM is a device that may be mapped into any
> location in the file system, but it still remains only as a symbolic link
> within the file system and does not physically hold a place in the
> hierarchical directory scheme.

    No.  /dev/scd0 is a device which may be mounted on a mount point.  A mount
point is a directory.  A symbolic link is something else entirely.  So /cdrom,
a directory off the root, *IS* my cdrom.  :P

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