From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: GDB load prob
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:56:49 +0200
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> So we might as well make DJGPP libc allow access to directories inside
> c:\dev\ but not to files directly inside c:\dev\*.*

It would be nice to have this, but I don't know how to do that without
breaking the features which caused us to treat x:/dev specially in the
first place.

You need to understand that there's no code in the DJGPP library which
specifically forbids using files in x:/dev.  This is just an
unfortunate side-effect of the special treatment that files in x:/dev
get.  The single most important problem is that DOS devices can have
any name they choose, so when handed a name x:/dev/foo, you have no
idea whether this is a device or a file named foo in the dev
directory.

The challenge is to retain the special treatment for devices and yet
support existing normal files in that directory.  Patches to make that
happen are welcome.

> This wouldn't break compatibility with any Unix ports, would it?

``Show me the source.''  Without that, who knows?