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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls /dev/*
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 07:31:34 -0800
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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.

To me, a disk drive IS a device. YMMV! :-)

> 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.

How so? What exactly is the OP's problem? As stated cd /dev and ls /dev 
fail. With my "solution" both cd and ls work. Sounds like a solution to 
me! ;-)

-- 
I said "NO" to drugs, but they didn't listen.


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