Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/07/28/21:53:24
In article <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 980728085217 DOT 6371A-100000 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT jptdmg2>,
Geoffrey Norton <geoffrey AT jpint DOT toronto DOT edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I recently installed B19, and everything is fine, except my /dev
>directory didn't get created. Am I missing something? I uninstalled and
>reinstalled, to no avail. I need to have ptys and ttys for some perl
>scripts that I'm working on (Expect stuff), and this is getting quite
>frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The /dev directory does not exist outside of the imagination of the
cygwin DLL. Things like /dev/null, /dev/tty, /dev/tty1, and /dev/ptmx
are understood by cygwin but you can't actually do a directory on them.
Yet.
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