From: Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM>
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Subject: Re: GDB load prob
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 01:35:40 GMT
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On 4 Mar 2000 17:30:34 GMT, Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
wrote:

>Damian Yerrick <DONT.YOU.DAREd_yerrick> wrote:
>: In Unix, are there directories inside /dev/*, or just special files?

Adding:  I don't have control over end users' directory structures.

>It depends. In Linux 2.2 and earlier (more or less) only devices.
>In Solaris there are a lot of links to /devices (IIRC).

So we might as well make DJGPP libc allow access to directories inside
c:\dev\ but not to files directly inside c:\dev\*.*
This wouldn't break compatibility with any Unix ports, would it?


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