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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan 18 16:49, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> > Oh, sorry Brian -- flash update.  Have you upgraded in the past
> > 45 hours?  Then you might have the newest feature implemented
> > by Christopher.
> >
> > Is there any logic to doing this for /proc and /cygdrive and not
> > /dev?
>
> The logic is that /dev should be a real directory, to allow stuff like
> creating the /dev/log unix domain socket when running syslogd, or for
> instance symlinks like /dev/tape -> /dev/st0 as expected by mt(1).
>
> If /dev is an emulated only directory, both of the above examples would
> fail.

FWIW, you can have /dev as a real directory populated by virtual devices.
	Igor
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