This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.25-17


On Oct 18 13:29, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> > Based on user response, I may be convinced to fold in the rest of Igor's
> > create_devices.sh [see
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html] into the bash
> > postinstall, as it admittedly looks a bit weird when 'ls /dev' shows
> > /dev/stdin but not /dev/null (rest assured, all the devices still exist,
> > even if a listing of /dev does not show them).
> 
> FYI, mknod works just fine on Cygwin, and I've been using a /ddev
> directory populated with mknod for a while now (not in scripts, of course)
> with no problems.
> 
> I have a preliminary version of a modified script that uses mknod to
> populate a directory with devices.  Should we use that instead (and put
> this in a postinstall script for the "cygwin" package)?

Why not create a stand-alone package in the base category which
consists of just the postinstall script?


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
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/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]