X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46EACF76.9080700@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:14:14 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Whither /dev/null ? References: <1189782531.24064.8.camel@mercury.sprymusic> <183c528b0709140830t2f0637bahd2053a806cba22fb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <183c528b0709140830t2f0637bahd2053a806cba22fb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brian Mathis wrote: > On 9/14/07, Lewis Hyatt wrote: >>> 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 >> > > Maybe its been gone over before, but I question the wisdom of "hiding" > a directory like that. It seems counterintuitive, and obviously > causes confusion for people. > > Does creating a /dev directory (in the default install) cause a big problem? Yes, this has been discussed before. You can see the email archives to get the details. If you want to populate a '/dev' directory with all the devices Cygwin supports on your system, feel free to do so. As I recall, Igor Peshansky floated a script on this list some time ago. You can look that up if you like. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/