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On Nov 16 09:27, Igor Peshansky wrote:

[YAFQ]

> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > [...] it seems like it
> > > might be nicer if cygwin/devices.in were to provide them natively for all
> > > users.
> >
> > Dunno about that.  On Linux, /dev/std{in,out,err} are just symbolic
> > links to fd/{0,1,2} and fd is just a symlink to /proc/self/fd.
> >
> > So what we should do here IMO is to augment the base-files package
> > to create a /dev directory and create a couple of standard symlinks
> > in it, which are not covered automatically by the Cygwin DLL.
> 
> There already was some discussion, ending in
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2005-02/msg00010.html>, which
> never got a reply...

Isn't your create_devices script adding all the devices handled by
Cygwin?  The idea here is slightly different in that the script should
only create symlinks in /dev.  Device nodes for the exising Cygwin
devices are not actually necessary so we should be careful with them,
maybe.


Corinna

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