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)?
Igor
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