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Subject: Re: Odd directory created when installing 1.7
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Cliff Hones wrote:
> .. One further possibly useful piece
> of informaion - the create timestamps on the odd directories are all the
> same, and 14 seconds later than the timestamp on the correct "dev" directory.

Looking at the install log, I see this timestamp matches the time the
bash.sh postinstall was run, so it would have been this snippet which
did it, I imagine:

  # Install /dev/fd, /dev/std{in,out,err}.  The bash builtin test was compiled
  # to assume these exist, so use /bin/test to really check.
  DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')"
  mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1

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