From: Martin Stromberg Message-Id: <200110010921.LAA18740@lws256.lu.erisoft.se> Subject: Re: fixpath patch (rev 3) To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 11:21:44 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <6480-Mon01Oct2001094710+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Oct 01, 2001 09:47:10 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Eli said: > > From: Richard Dawe > > /dev/bogus? > > Not good: there could be a real directory "/bogus" on that drive. > > "/dev/:bogus:" would be a better idea. But we already disallow /dev/ (because of Unix compatibility). Plus we already have /dev/env. In what way would /dev/bogus be different? Right, MartinS