X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46542F6B.4000102@byu.net> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:11:23 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karthik Raghunathan , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /dev/stdin in Cygwin References: <0F8BD6A829E0F249847A878B9AF5607C45332657A5@AA-EXMSG-C404.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <0F8BD6A829E0F249847A878B9AF5607C45332657A5@AA-EXMSG-C404.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the list. According to Karthik Raghunathan on 5/23/2007 4:28 AM: > /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./ > > Dear Eric, > > I am a beginner in using Cygwin and i got this error message “cannot > open /dev/stdin” on trying to run some application on Cygwin. I would be > thankful if you could explain in a bit more detail about how to create > the /dev/std* files on Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html And if someone is motivated enough, there has been talk of adding this to a postinstall script so that it happens automatically as part of installing cygwin. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFGVC9r84KuGfSFAYARAjARAJ91g3CeaGmKIPtkZ6iiG/SdYyb/EwCgmDlO E6THSODvAoUZgKQjqrIvneo= =nWkh -----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/