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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:40:15 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Sam Steingold schrieb:

>>* Christopher Faylor <pts-ab-crefbany-ercyl-cyrnfr AT pltjva DOT pbz> [2004-11-03 10:18:18 -0500]:
>>
>>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:08:44AM -0000, Chris January wrote:
>>
>>>>>* Christopher Faylor 
>>>>
>>>><pts-ab-crefbany-ercyl-cyrnfr AT pltjva DOT pbz> [2004-11-02 15:01:13 -0500]:
>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks, I guessed that much.  I also know about "PTC".
>>>>(fhandler_proc.cc is too long,
>>>>I guess fhandler_dev.cc would be just as long, and I suspect 
>>>>that fhandler_dev.cc is not the only this missing).
> 
> 
>>My plan was for /dev to go away as a special mount.  Now that mknod
>>works, this is more doable than it was in 2002.
> 
> 
> Could you please elaborate?
> are you saying that "/dev/" will go away altogether?
> where will /dev/clipboard reside?

he meant:
mkdir /dev
and populate that with your favorite mknod initializer.
igor posted one some months ago.

BTW:
colinux uses /dev/cobd<n>
I'd really like to try to mount this beast in cygwin also.
(mke2fs => ddk as in colinux)
-
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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