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 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:21:32 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: ls /dev/* Message-ID: <20041103152132.GF31627@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Andrew DeFaria References: <20041102200113.GA22769@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >> * Andrew DeFaria [2004-11-02 22:07:41 -0800]: >> >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >>> >>>> why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory? >>>> cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while >>>> cat /dev/clipboard works. >>> >>> No one has implemented the special handling required for /dev which >>> would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work. >> >> Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to make sense >> to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, which is longer >> to type. When I ls /dev I get: >> >> $ ls /dev >> c/ d/ z/ > >YES! I think this is a great idea! Ok. One of us is pretty confused. If you want /dev to just contain any random stuff, then you could just create the directory and populate it. You could even populate it with devices if you wanted. -- 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/