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Re
:
Categorization: Video Capture Driver?
(Milind Changire)
Date:
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 17:55:40 GMT
From:
Michael K. Johnson
<
johnsonm@redhat.com
>
Yes, it should be a character device. You can't mount filesystems on it, and you don't want access to it to go through a block-oriented elevator-scheduled algorithm.