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Christopher Faylor wrote: > Yes, I understood that if you are using /dev in this way that it is > purely an idiosyncratic thing that doesn't necessarily make any sense > when you consider the pure UNIX sense of what /dev is supposed to be for. i.e. the Unix purist view. Hey I understand where you're coming from but I'm not a purist. > I just wouldn't recommend this for the general cygwin populace. If we > ever start doing something like udev on cygwin you're going to > have some problems. Yes this is the risk. I understand it. > /mnt makes a little more sense for an alternate location, IMO. Yes this is a quick alternative though I tend to thing of mounts as mounting of file systems from other machines. I guess I just think "Well of course any disk/file system that's present should be mounted already" so to me /mnt is for other, not normally mounted file systems from other machines or perhaps floppy/USB, etc. Yes to each his own.... -- Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E. B. White -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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