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On Oct 18 13:29, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> > Based on user response, I may be convinced to fold in the rest of Igor's
> > create_devices.sh [see
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html] into the bash
> > postinstall, as it admittedly looks a bit weird when 'ls /dev' shows
> > /dev/stdin but not /dev/null (rest assured, all the devices still exist,
> > even if a listing of /dev does not show them).
> 
> FYI, mknod works just fine on Cygwin, and I've been using a /ddev
> directory populated with mknod for a while now (not in scripts, of course)
> with no problems.
> 
> I have a preliminary version of a modified script that uses mknod to
> populate a directory with devices.  Should we use that instead (and put
> this in a postinstall script for the "cygwin" package)?

Why not create a stand-alone package in the base category which
consists of just the postinstall script?


Corinna

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