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 14:42:28 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Missing /dev Message-ID: <20040121194228.GC26884@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040121193342.GB26884@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040121193342.GB26884@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:33:42PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:25:13PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> >>> This is a tiny little annoyance in Cygwin: various device paths exist, >>> like your controlling terminal /dev/conin. However, there is no actual >>> /dev directory in the filesystem. >>> >>> This confuses some programs that do parsing on the path rather than >>> just pass the entire string to open(). E.g. CLISP's file I/O library: >>> >>> [6]> (with-open-file (f "/dev/conin" :direction :input) (read f)) >>> >>> *** - nonexistent directory: #P"/dev/" >>> >>> The simple workaround is to ``mkdir /dev'', but would it be a bad idea >>> for the Cygwin installer to create this directory? >> >>AFAIK, once Cygwin has proper mkdev, /dev will be a real directory. Until >>then, you can use the script from > >Cygwin has had a proper mk*nod* for a while, and, theoretically, it >should have been working in 1.5.6, although I just tried it with the >latest snapshot and it seems to be broken currently. Actually, it seems to be working. I stupidly tested it with an echo from the windows command prompt, which didn't understand a cygwin device. This works fine: bash$ ls -l /dev/tty bash$ mknod foo c 5 0 bash$ ls -l foo crw-rw-rw- 1 cgf None 5, 0 Jan 21 14:39 foo bash$ echo hello > foo hello -- 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/