Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/03/10:18:13
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:08:44AM -0000, Chris January wrote:
>> > * Christopher Faylor
>> <pts-ab-crefbany-ercyl-cyrnfr AT pltjva DOT pbz> [2004-11-02 15:01:13 -0500]:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> >>why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory?
>> >>cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while
>> >>cat /dev/clipboard works.
>> >
>> > No one has implemented the special handling required for /dev which
>> > would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work.
>>
>> Thanks, I guessed that much. I also know about "PTC".
>> (fhandler_proc.cc is too long,
>> I guess fhandler_dev.cc would be just as long, and I suspect
>> that fhandler_dev.cc is not the only this missing).
>>
>> Is this on anyone's TODO list?
>Actually it's not that difficult. I've already implemented it once. See this
>patch:
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q2/msg00191.html
>It was due to be merged sometime around 1.3.12 but I think I and the
>maintainers forgot about it. Feel free to update the patch to latest CVS and
>re-submit it.
Actually, please don't. I think you misinterpret the discussion in
cygwin-developers. Now that you've reacquainted me with the discussion,
I remember why it wasn't applied as-is. My plan was for /dev to go away
as a special mount. Now that mknod works, this is more doable than it
was in 2002.
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