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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:48:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz AT ashi DOT footprints DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Missing /dev
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401210841460.2918-100000@ashi.FootPrints.net>
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This is a tiny little annoyance in Cygwin: various device paths exist,
like your controlling terminal /dev/conin. However, there is no actual
/dev directory in the filesystem.

This confuses some programs that do parsing on the path rather than
just pass the entire string to open(). E.g. CLISP's file I/O library:

[6]> (with-open-file (f "/dev/conin" :direction :input) (read f))

*** - nonexistent directory: #P"/dev/"

The simple workaround is to ``mkdir /dev'', but would it be a bad idea
for the Cygwin installer to create this directory?


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