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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:33:40 -0500
To: Kaz Kylheku <kaz AT ashi DOT footprints DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Missing /dev
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At 11:48 AM 1/21/2004, Kaz Kylheku you wrote:
>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?


There's no need.  As Chris Faylor has said in the past, we'll be moving
away from this pseudo-device emulation.  That's a better resolution to the
problem than perpetuating the current workaround.


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