docs/60048: [patch] small correction to advanced-network/chapter.sgml

Ceri Davies setantae at submonkey.net
Mon Dec 8 16:43:23 UTC 2003


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:40:34AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:57:37AM +0900, FURUKAWA Jumpei wrote:
> > 
> > > @@ -5679,7 +5679,7 @@
> > >  	</listitem>
> > > =20
> > >  	<listitem>
> > > -	  <para>Make a <devicename>dev/null</devicename> that
> > > +	  <para>Make a <devicename>/dev/null</devicename> that
> > >  	    <application>named</application> can see and write to:</para>
> > 
> > This one is not an error.
> 
> I would have made the same mistake.
> 
> Why is "dev/null" not an error?  (for my own knowledge, at least).

The sentence is talking about /etc/namedb/dev/null, not /dev/null.  It
could arguably be changed to "Make a null device", which may be clearer.

Ceri

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