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Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:42:19 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cut and paste standard input and output
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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:15:47AM +0000, John Vincent wrote:
>At the risk of being a "me too", I'd like to offer Chris every encouragement 
>
>and support in every way possible [excluding any practical help:-)] to 
>implement a feature so that doing an ls on /dev lists all devices, and in 
>general, make any file name that can be open()ed, or stat()ed be possible to 
>
>find by looking in the file hierarchy.
>
>Devices and mount points are currently a bit ugly in cygwin compared to 
>Linux/Un*x file systems.

I've previously mentioned that Corinna and others have discussed ways of
implementing /dev.  I'm not going to accept a patch that exposes /dev
without reopening that discussion.

Just a cautionary note.  I was going to assume that since I'd already
mentioend this it would be obvious but, of course, nothing is ever
obvious in the cygwin mailing list.

cgf

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