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On Nov 16 13:46, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 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.

That would be a good start.  It doesn't exclude a later change to add
the device nodes.


Corinna

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