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From:	=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
Subject:	Re: ls /dev/*
Date:	Thu, 04 Nov 2004 04:21:15 +0100
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> 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.

Why have a real /dev directory? I like having a dynamically populated 
/dev/-directory. I like Linux's devfs very much, and perhaps udev will 
be very much like it, but i don't guess that cygwin will have something 
like udev (an example where devices would be added/removed from /dev is, 
wehn a new CD-ROM is attached/removed etc.)


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