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Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices
- From: James Vega <jamessan at coe dot neu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:50:01 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices
Create a directory named "comX" where X is a number.
ls the directory and it will come up as a character device.
This shouldn't be happening unless the directory is under /dev.
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