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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> 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.

The script does both.  We can extract the piece that adds symlinks.
	Igor
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