From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: /dev
28 Jul 1998 21:53:24 GMT
Message-ID: <6plh8k$4uf$1@cronkite.cygnus.com>
References: <9807272118 DOT AA21390 AT porsche> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 980728085217 DOT 6371A-100000 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT jptdmg2>
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In article <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 96 DOT 980728085217 DOT 6371A-100000 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT jptdmg2>,
Geoffrey Norton <geoffrey AT jpint DOT toronto DOT edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>	I recently installed B19, and everything is fine, except my /dev
>directory didn't get created.  Am I missing something?  I uninstalled and
>reinstalled, to no avail.  I need to have ptys and ttys for some perl
>scripts that I'm working on (Expect stuff), and this is getting quite
>frustrating.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The /dev directory does not exist outside of the imagination of the
cygwin DLL.  Things like /dev/null, /dev/tty, /dev/tty1, and /dev/ptmx
are understood by cygwin but you can't actually do a directory on them.
Yet.
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