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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > So what we should do here IMO is to augment the base-files package > > > to create a /dev directory and create a couple of standard symlinks > > > in it, which are not covered automatically by the Cygwin DLL. > > > > There already was some discussion, ending in > > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2005-02/msg00010.html>, which > > never got a reply... > > Isn't your create_devices script adding all the devices handled by > Cygwin? The idea here is slightly different in that the script should > only create symlinks in /dev. Device nodes for the exising Cygwin > devices are not actually necessary so we should be careful with them, > maybe. One of my concerns is that readdir() on /dev works nicely, integrating both symlinks and actual cygwin devices. Right now, the benefit of Igor's script creating placeholders even for actual devices is that readdir() (and thus ls /dev, or even tab completion when you type /dev/<TAB>) can see all devices and not just symlinks like /dev/stdin. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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