On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:29:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>It really isn't worth the effort to implement this. Eventually, /dev >>will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now, I thought >>it would be useful for it to show up in / to stop the "/d<tab> doesn't >>show up in command line completion" complaints. >> >>If I've just traded the command line completion complaints for the >>above I guess it wasn't a very good trade. > >Unfortunately, command line completion on /d<tab> is pretty useless >unless you can also do /d<tab>nu<tab> and get /dev/null.
Let me see if I can say it in another way to avoid YA loop on this subject. Eventually, /dev will be populated with appropriate stuff so that "ls /dev" will work. It won't be in 1.5.19 but it may be in 1.5.20. Think "devfs" or "udev". cgf -- 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/
