Talk:Device Nodes

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Um, on any Mac OS block device diskXsY has a character device counterpart called rdiskXsY, so rdisk0* is just a character device for accessing the flash.


! Ahh! Thanks for that correction MiW

lol

on the same topic as above...rdisko is not ramdisk...do you know what ramdisk means? :)


I do know what a ramdisk means yes! Why is it so strange that there would exist a ramdisk device node? The device must read the ramdisk contents from flash before it copies to ram right?

Ive had my device for a little under 4 days now, and from a linux background so I am not totally sure how OSX/BSD handles it all. Im just trying report all the info I find. MiW


Also, maybe add /dev/kmem and /dev/mem as blocked nodes


"blocked nodes"? Does the kernel prevent the user from reading from these nodes? Oh and i am totally right about the GPS.

MiWs-IPhone:/usr/libexec root# strings locationd82 | grep dev
/dev/dlci.spi-baseband.9

MiW