Re: find reports an internal system loop on cygdrive

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jan 18 16:49, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Oh, sorry Brian -- flash update.  Have you upgraded in the past
> 45 hours?  Then you might have the newest feature implemented
> by Christopher.
> 
> Is there any logic to doing this for /proc and /cygdrive and not
> /dev?

The logic is that /dev should be a real directory, to allow stuff like
creating the /dev/log unix domain socket when running syslogd, or for
instance symlinks like /dev/tape -> /dev/st0 as expected by mt(1).

If /dev is an emulated only directory, both of the above examples would
fail.


Corinna

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