Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/05/20:33:58
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:03:25PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>
>> I have noted (with snap 20050901) that now in '/' it appears 'dev'
>> (virtual) directory (and proc):
>
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01098.html
>
>> Are the message : 'ls: /dev: No such file or directory',
>
>Yes.
>
>> and the date:
>>
>> Jan 1 1970 dev
>>
>> correct?
>
>Correct, but the time probably could be set to something more friendly
>than the unix epoch. In this case /dev is a completely synthetic entity
>so there is no actual timestamp to report. Maybe it should report the
>time that the computer was booted.
It really isn't worth the effort to implement this. Eventually, /dev
will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now, I thought
it would be useful for it to show up in / to stop the "/d<tab> doesn't
show up in command line completion" complaints.
If I've just traded the command line completion complaints for the above
I guess it wasn't a very good trade.
cgf
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