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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:03:13 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: something strange with devices
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:52:13PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>"Jon LaBadie" <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
>> A "strings /bin/*.dll" also reveal these 4 names:
>>
>> /dev/console
>> /dev/fd # no number
>> /dev/kmem
>> /dev/socket
>
>Umm: I've no idea about those and they all come up as "no such file or
>directory" here. I'll add it to my list of things to go and have
>another look at sometime. Thanks.

We have a patch pending from Christopher January which exposes /dev
as a directory.  Some variation of it will be in 1.3.12.

Before going into these kind of investigations, it pays to check the
cygwin-developers and cygwin-patches mailing list archives...

cgf

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