X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1285176556-50cdc9e60002-w5GHUG X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: daniel AT fgm DOT com X-ASG-Whitelist: Client Message-ID: <4C9A3CFA.9090507@fgm.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:29:30 -0400 From: Daniel Barclay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100914 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem References: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602F21573F3 AT server03> <358785 DOT 53873 DOT qm AT web25505 DOT mail DOT ukl DOT yahoo DOT com> <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602F21573F7 AT server03> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A2094D31E89D AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A2094D31E89D@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: UNKNOWN[216.2.55.102] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1285176571 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: AES128-SHA X-Barracuda-URL: http://spam.fgm.com:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: ... > To go there directly: > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices Regarding where that page says: These devices cannot be seen with the command ls /dev/ ... I've wondered about that--why aren't those special files listed in a directory listing? (The Cygwin DLL makes those device files appear when they are referred to by full pathname; why doesn't it also make them appear in the containing directory's listing?) Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple