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Ok...sounds logical. 

The warning message about the duplicate inode may be
confusing for those not used to seeing it.  I haven't
figured out a way around it (I've had the message for
a long time as I have my 'cygdrive' prefix mapped to "/").

-l

Igor Peshansky wrote:

>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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