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: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: ls /dev/* Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 04:21:15 +0100 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <20041103090958.4EB621B3E5@cgf.cx> <20041103151818.GE31627@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: pd953cdd5.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927 In-Reply-To: <20041103151818.GE31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes > Actually, please don't. I think you misinterpret the discussion in > cygwin-developers. Now that you've reacquainted me with the discussion, > I remember why it wasn't applied as-is. My plan was for /dev to go away > as a special mount. Now that mknod works, this is more doable than it > was in 2002. Why have a real /dev directory? I like having a dynamically populated /dev/-directory. I like Linux's devfs very much, and perhaps udev will be very much like it, but i don't guess that cygwin will have something like udev (an example where devices would be added/removed from /dev is, wehn a new CD-ROM is attached/removed etc.) -- 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/