RE: [MiNT] ext2fs

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Michael Schwingen
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:05 PM
> To: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] ext2fs
>
>
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 06:16:22PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > Hmmm, shouldn't there be a difference between character and
> block devices
> > (or is this one of these missing things...?)?
>
> Yes. However, there is still the possibility of character devices
> that take
> a long time to open, or have other unwanted side effects (like eg. any
> device that turns on external hardware when it is opened).
>
> Regardless of this problem, I think probing all devices to find
> out the few
> which are serial ports is the wrong method.

Actually, I am not sure that the requirement is properly defined... Why
would you disallow to use the Centronics port from a terminal program...? Or
maybe a TCP socket?