Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/10/19/04:01:42
On Oct 18 13:29, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> > Based on user response, I may be convinced to fold in the rest of Igor's
> > create_devices.sh [see
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html] into the bash
> > postinstall, as it admittedly looks a bit weird when 'ls /dev' shows
> > /dev/stdin but not /dev/null (rest assured, all the devices still exist,
> > even if a listing of /dev does not show them).
>
> FYI, mknod works just fine on Cygwin, and I've been using a /ddev
> directory populated with mknod for a while now (not in scripts, of course)
> with no problems.
>
> I have a preliminary version of a modified script that uses mknod to
> populate a directory with devices. Should we use that instead (and put
> this in a postinstall script for the "cygwin" package)?
Why not create a stand-alone package in the base category which
consists of just the postinstall script?
Corinna
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