Re: POSIX devices

[Arturus Magi <sailorleo at isonews2 dot com>]

Carlo Florendo wrote:
> Oliver Vecernik wrote:
>
> > But how do I know the order of device names? It all depends when the
> > devices are plugged on to the system. Is there a command to find out?
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sd? of=/tmp/foo bs=512 count=1
> >
> >  
>
> AFAIK, Cygwin does not implement the /dev directory.

Cygwin does implement /dev (and /proc, plus the Windows specific 
/registry), you just can't ls it because it's all internal redirection 
magic.  There is a script (Google is your friend) to create and populate 
/dev with null files as placeholders for working devices, so that ls and 
the like can grab them. The Cygwin /dev magic will ignore the files in 
favor of the virtual device handles when you actually try to use them.

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