From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
Message-Id: <200110011103.NAA18829@lws256.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: fixpath patch (rev 3)
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:03:24 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <1001931968.21287.12.camel@bender.falconsoft.be> from "Tim Van Holder" at Oct 01, 2001 12:26:07 PM
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Tim said:
> On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 11:21, Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > > 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).
> 
> Do we?  mkinstalldirs currently creates stray directories because
> test -d /dev checks c:/dev (with C the current drive), and
> test -d /dev/env checks ./env (for some reason).
> I would be inclined to say that usurping /dev as our own virtual
> tree would be a good thing, but I believe Eli doesn't agree.

Just try to install DJGPP in /dev/djgpp...


Right,

						MartinS