Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Originating-IP: [195.224.233.3] From: "John Vincent" To: Conrad.Scott@dsl.pipex.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: something strange with devices Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:59:18 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jun 2002 13:59:18.0855 (UTC) FILETIME=[D63F3570:01C2192B] Hi, Thanks very much for the list, it looks pretty complete to me. There's a strange thing going on though. I saved the list to "device_names.txt" and then ran ls -l `cat device_names.txt` The ls program successfuly found all the file names on the list. However, some of them didn't seem to show up as devices, only as files. When I did ls -l `cat device_names.txt` | grep -v , to grep removed all lines containing a "," I got the following output -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/dgsocket -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/streamsocket -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/tcp -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/udp Which seems to show that these "devices" exist, but they're not devices, just zero size files! Any idea what's going on with this ?? Thanks, /John Vincent. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/