From: DJ Delorie Subject: Re: /dev in B20.1 16 Dec 1998 10:47:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3677D60B.1603A426@delorie.com> References: <74rYqp3ppfB AT mike DOT franken DOT de> <3676A54D DOT 1C0194A1 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT digisle DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.126 i586) X-Accept-Language: en JJ Streicher-Bremer wrote: > > I just downloaded and installed the user tools version 20.1. What a > wonderful difference. sshd runs better than ever before (faster more > stable)! Now I have a question about the /dev folder. The user tools > don't create it, yet there are quite a few messages about things in the > /dev folder. How do I go about creating these special files? The main > reason for this is to get syslogd working. The files in /dev that cygwin1.dll refers to are synthetic - they don't actually exist on your file system (unlike unix). When your program tries to use a file in /dev, cygwin intercepts the request and handles it internally. You can still create a /dev directory and put files in it, but they won't be interpreted as special files. If you need additional special files in /dev, you'll probably have to modify cygwin1.dll to support them. Which special file do you need for sshd?