> * Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-03 10:18:18 -0500]: > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:08:44AM -0000, Chris January wrote: >>> > * Christopher Faylor >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-02 15:01:13 -0500]: >>> > >>> > 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. >>> >>> Thanks, I guessed that much. I also know about "PTC". >>> (fhandler_proc.cc is too long, >>> I guess fhandler_dev.cc would be just as long, and I suspect >>> that fhandler_dev.cc is not the only this missing).
> My plan was for /dev to go away as a special mount. Now that mknod > works, this is more doable than it was in 2002. Could you please elaborate? are you saying that "/dev/" will go away altogether? where will /dev/clipboard reside? Thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.honestreporting.com> There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who cannot. -- 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/