Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 07:41:40 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Using /dev/ as a real path In-Reply-To: <10206300719.AA14320@clio.rice.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu wrote: > > Any device driver can install a device with up to 8 upper-case letters, > > and plug it into the DOS device chain. We want to be able to support > > /dev/foo if there's a device called FOO, and we don't want to limit that > > to the names of standard devices like PRN and AUX. > > I understand why we would want to support this for unix type devices, > but why would we want or need to support /dev/prn instead of just PRN? For consistency, and also because DOS pretends that \dev exists even if it doesn't. > If a \dev directory really exists, how can we support it? I don't know. If someone has a suggestion for how to solve this without sacrificing /dev/foo, please speak up.