X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <455B18D9.30504@byu.net> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:40:41 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: request for /dev/stdin and friends Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical /dev directory. But by doing so, I have made it so that the version of bash that I compile detects their existence, and assumes it can use /dev/stdin without problems, and then running that version of bash on other machines fails because /dev/stdin is not standard in cygwin. I suppose I could try to make the bash postinstall script create a physical /dev/ drive, and populate it with std{in,out,err}, but it seems like it might be nicer if cygwin/devices.in were to provide them natively for all users. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFWxjY84KuGfSFAYARAnAaAJ92M8GtHVvVSIhphmP+1205uvWMgACfZ+0b E3HBCaw16fLVF+ubE5qq2f4= =98ie -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/