Re: stopping of translators

2000-10-09 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
Erik Verbruggen wrote: > > Hello, > > A short question: when do translators actually quit? well a translator with -c will stay across reboots and -a will not stand reboots a -a translator will be started with device access and will die on reboot. a active translator is a running translator -

stopping of translators

2000-10-09 Thread Erik Verbruggen
Hello, A short question: when do translators actually quit? When you do a "ls -alni /dev" a translator for every device in /dev is started and are only stopped by a TERM signal, or a reboot. Some of them will never be used actually used to do "real" device access. Erik.