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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: ls /dev/* Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 07:38:10 -0800 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <20041102200113.GA22769@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041103151252.GD31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041103152309.GG31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <20041103152309.GG31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > Sorry. I should have read further. Apparently the OP just wants > *something* in /dev even if it is not what "should" be there. The question of "should" is subjective I would think. I worry sometimes, since /dev is "special" and a "pseudo" directory that what I'm doing my break things in some manner. To date it works just fine. And, as I've said, to me, disk drives are devices. Somebody suggested /mnt. To me that's more for remote mounts, so my Z drive might be better suited for /mnt but C and D are local and I would expect them in /dev not /mnt.though one could argue that they too are mounted. Right now we are just talking personal preferences... > I suggest just making the directory and downloading interesting jpeg > images to the directory. That's what I'd do. Hell a touch /dev/file would work (except other special things in /dev like clipboard will not list - but curiously list with ls /dev/clipboard)! -- I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. -- 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/