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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:25:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Kaz Kylheku <kaz AT ashi DOT footprints DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Missing /dev
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Kaz Kylheku 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?

AFAIK, once Cygwin has proper mkdev, /dev will be a real directory.  Until
then, you can use the script from
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00353.html> to get a proper
/dev directory.
	Igor
P.S. The CLISP maintainer might want to try to fix the above in any case.
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