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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ls /dev/*
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:54:48 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria
> Sent: 03 November 2004 15:38

> The question of "should" is subjective I would think. I worry 
> sometimes, 
> since /dev is "special" and a "pseudo" directory that what 
> I'm doing my 
> break things in some manner. To date it works just fine. And, as I've 
> said, to me, disk drives are devices.

  You should stop talking now, because you're out of your depth.  Go away
and learn the difference between a physical device and a logical volume, and
come back when your comments have any validity.

> Somebody suggested /mnt. To me 
> that's more for remote mounts, so my Z drive might be better 
> suited for 
> /mnt but C and D are local and I would expect them in /dev not 
> /mnt.

  You should learn how posix systems work, since there's nothing 'remote'
about it.  Almost every linux/unix box provides access there to the floppy
and CD drive.  Would you call them "remote" devices?

>Right  now we are 
> just talking personal preferences...

  No, right now you are redefining words humpty-dumpty style to mean
whatever you want them to mean.  However "device" and "mounted filesystem"
are two very different things with very clear and well-defined semantics, of
which you are merely unaware.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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