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Re: Symlinks under /proc
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:04:57PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jan 31 12:43, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> D'oh! After all this thought process, I looked on Linux, and that's
>> *exactly* how /dev/std* are implemented there. On the one hand, it shows
>> that my brain still works (surprisingly). On the other, it proves yet
>> again that a few months in the laboratory can usually save a few hours in
>> the library.
>> Igor (properly ashamed)
>> P.S. Can those symlinks be added via the same mechanism as the /proc/self
>> symlink, or should base-files do it?
>
>I would prefer something in base-files. The problem with adding a
>virtual file system handler for /dev is that it's not a R/O FS as /proc.
>If we add a R/O /dev handler, nobody would be able to add own symlinks
>like `ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/tape'.
>
>On the same line, does base-files already create empty /dev and /proc
>directories? No, apparently not. Adding these empty directories would
>helps a lot for file completion.
Have we reached the point yet where we can just get rid of special /dev
handling entirely? Maybe we could just add /dev population to setup.exe
or even have cygwin1.dll itself run a program if it detects an unpopulated
/dev, sort of like how udev is handled in linux now.
My only reservation with doing things this way is that we'd be making
cygwin perform a disk lookup every time someone wanted to get to open
/dev/tty.
cgf