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Re: Missing /dev
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:33:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: Missing /dev
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401210841460.2918-100000@ashi.FootPrints.net>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 11:48 AM 1/21/2004, Kaz Kylheku you wrote:
>This is a tiny little annoyance in Cygwin: various device paths exist,
>like your controlling terminal /dev/conin. However, there is no actual
>/dev directory in the filesystem.
>
>This confuses some programs that do parsing on the path rather than
>just pass the entire string to open(). E.g. CLISP's file I/O library:
>
>[6]> (with-open-file (f "/dev/conin" :direction :input) (read f))
>
>*** - nonexistent directory: #P"/dev/"
>
>The simple workaround is to ``mkdir /dev'', but would it be a bad idea
>for the Cygwin installer to create this directory?
There's no need. As Chris Faylor has said in the past, we'll be moving
away from this pseudo-device emulation. That's a better resolution to the
problem than perpetuating the current workaround.
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