Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: ls /dev/* Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 22:07:41 -0800 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <20041102200113 DOT GA22769 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <20041102200113.GA22769@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: > >> why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory? >> cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while >> cat /dev/clipboard works. > > No one has implemented the special handling required for /dev which > would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work. Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to make sense to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, which is longer to type. When I ls /dev I get: $ ls /dev c/ d/ z/ A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition on my Linux box). -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be to understand. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/