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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:23:09 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ls /dev/*
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:12:52AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>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).
>
>While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you want, the unix
>paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev.  That is for devices.
>
>In any event, this has nothing to do with the actual question.  Even if
>this was something that makes sense, it doesn't help the OP meet his
>goals in any way.

Sorry.  I should have read further.  Apparently the OP just wants *something*
in /dev even if it is not what "should" be there.

I suggest just making the directory and downloading interesting jpeg images
to the directory.  That's what I'd do.

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