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From:	"Melvin Curran" <melvin AT hme DOT ltd DOT uk>
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Subject:	ls /dev/c strangeness
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To illustrate the problem, here is a sequence of commands straight
from my dos session:

C:\test>ls
dir1  file1  file2

C:\test>ls -l
total 2
drwxr-xr-x    2 dosuser  dos            32 Mar 19 15:42 dir1
-rw-r--r--    1 dosuser  dos             7 Mar 19 15:42 file1
-rw-r--r--    1 dosuser  dos             7 Mar 19 15:42 file2

C:\test>ls /dev/c
dir1  file1  file2

C:\test>ls -l /dev/c
ls: /dev/c/file1: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
ls: /dev/c/file2: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
ls: /dev/c/dir1: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
total 0

C:\test>ls /dev/c/test
dir1  file1  file2

C:\test>ls -l /dev/c/test
total 2
drwxr-xr-x    2 dosuser  dos            32 Mar 19 15:42 dir1
-rw-r--r--    1 dosuser  dos             7 Mar 19 15:42 file1
-rw-r--r--    1 dosuser  dos             7 Mar 19 15:42 file2

As you can see I'm getting a problem when ls has any options (I
have tried others) and the path given is /dev/c. I do, however,
get the correct response if I am in the root directory of C.
Is it just my system, or is everyone getting this?
(I also downloaded the beta version to try - no difference)

On a side note, I realise that 'ls /dev/c' lists the current directory
on drive C rather than the root directory because of the way the
dos file system works, but if /dev/c was introduced instead of C:
to give us POSIX-like syntax, wouldn't it have been a good idea
to give it POSIX-like semantics as well?

--
Melvin

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