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Re: ls /dev/*


Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:

* Andrew DeFaria <Naqerj@QrSnevn.pbz> [2004-11-02 22:07:41 -0800]:

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/

YES! I think this is a great idea!

Ok. One of us is pretty confused. If you want /dev to just contain any random stuff,

Who said that? I want dev to contain devices. My disk drives are devices to me.


then you could just create the directory and populate it.

Oh yeah I could choose some other directory. But why? I could just use /dev.


You could even populate it with devices if you wanted.


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