From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
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
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Eli said:
> > From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> > /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