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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7: why there is a directory E/cygwin/dev in the tree  of  	cygwin ?
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:36:59PM +0100, rolandc wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have installed cygwin 1.7 in e:\cygwin1.7
>After installation, there is a "strange" directory :
>  /E/cygwin1.7/dev/ (posix path)
>  E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev (win32 path)
>
>What is the role of this directory?

It is "/dev".

>Is it important?

Yes.

cgf

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