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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Yes, I understood that if you are using /dev in this way that it is 
> purely an idiosyncratic thing that doesn't necessarily make any sense
> when you consider the pure UNIX sense of what /dev is supposed to be for. 

i.e. the Unix purist view. Hey I understand where you're coming from but 
I'm not a purist.

> I just wouldn't recommend this for the general cygwin populace. If we 
> ever start doing something like udev on cygwin you're going to
> have some problems.

Yes this is the risk. I understand it.

> /mnt makes a little more sense for an alternate location, IMO.

Yes this is a quick alternative though I tend to thing of mounts as 
mounting of file systems from other machines. I guess I just think "Well 
of course any disk/file system that's present should be mounted already" 
so to me /mnt is for other, not normally mounted file systems from other 
machines or perhaps floppy/USB, etc.

Yes to each his own....
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