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Subject: Re: Whither /dev/null ?
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On 9/14/07, Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt AT princeton DOT edu> wrote:
> > I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the
> > scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users
> > create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because
> > every script would have to check for this...
> >
> > Any advice?
> > Puzzled about nothing.
> > J
> >
> >
>
> Did you try it without doing mkdir /dev first? It should still work fine.
>
> Lewis AT LDH-Laptop ~
> $ ls -l /dev
> ls: cannot access /dev: No such file or directory
>
> Lewis AT LDH-Laptop ~
> $ ls -l /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw- 1 Lewis None 1, 3 Sep 14 11:12 /dev/null
>
> -Lewis
>

Maybe its been gone over before, but I question the wisdom of "hiding"
a directory like that.  It seems counterintuitive, and obviously
causes confusion for people.

Does creating a /dev directory (in the default install) cause a big problem?

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