Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:41:52 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Missing /dev Message-ID: <20040121174152.GB17823@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040121123052.039e25a0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040121123052.039e25a0@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:33:40PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >There's no need. As Chris Faylor has said in the past, we'll be moving >away from this pseudo-device emulation. That's a better resolution to the >problem than perpetuating the current workaround. AFAIK, mknod even works now... The problem is, though, that it is bound to be slower to use a disk-based /dev directory than the current in-memory version. So, the real solution is probably some kind of devfs or udev method, like linux. cgf -- 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/