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RE: ls /dev/*
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:58:31 -0000
- Subject: RE: ls /dev/*
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 03 November 2004 15:23
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:12:52AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >>Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to
> make sense
> >>to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c,
> which is longer
> >>to type. When I ls /dev I get:
> >>
> >>$ ls /dev
> >>c/ d/ z/
> >>
> >>A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition
> on my Linux box).
> >
> >While, you are welcome to redefine /cygdrive any way you
> want, the unix
> >paradigm does not put filesystems under /dev. That is for devices.
> >
> >In any event, this has nothing to do with the actual
> question. Even if
> >this was something that makes sense, it doesn't help the OP meet his
> >goals in any way.
>
> Sorry. I should have read further. Apparently the OP just
> wants *something*
> in /dev even if it is not what "should" be there.
>
> I suggest just making the directory and downloading
> interesting jpeg images
> to the directory. That's what I'd do.
In my one I put loads of text files with all the meanest comments off the
cygwin list! Now when I want to reply to a post I don't even need to write
anything! 'fortune /dev' in my .sig file does it all for me!
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....