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 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:23:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls /dev/* Message-ID: <20041103152309.GG31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20041102200113 DOT GA22769 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20041103151252 DOT GD31627 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041103151252.GD31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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. -- 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/