X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Lewis Hyatt Subject: Re: Whither /dev/null ? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:13:01 -0400 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <1189782531.24064.8.camel@mercury.sprymusic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <1189782531.24064.8.camel@mercury.sprymusic> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 > I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the > scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users > create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because > every script would have to check for this... > > Any advice? > Puzzled about nothing. > J > > Did you try it without doing mkdir /dev first? It should still work fine. Lewis@LDH-Laptop ~ $ ls -l /dev ls: cannot access /dev: No such file or directory Lewis@LDH-Laptop ~ $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 Lewis None 1, 3 Sep 14 11:12 /dev/null -Lewis -- 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/