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Re: ls /dev/*


Sam Steingold schrieb:

* Christopher Faylor <pts-ab-crefbany-ercyl-cyrnfr@pltjva.pbz> [2004-11-03 10:18:18 -0500]:

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:08:44AM -0000, Chris January wrote:

* Christopher Faylor

<pts-ab-crefbany-ercyl-cyrnfr@pltjva.pbz> [2004-11-02 15:01:13 -0500]:


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.

Thanks, I guessed that much. I also know about "PTC".
(fhandler_proc.cc is too long,
I guess fhandler_dev.cc would be just as long, and I suspect that fhandler_dev.cc is not the only this missing).


My plan was for /dev to go away as a special mount.  Now that mknod
works, this is more doable than it was in 2002.


Could you please elaborate?
are you saying that "/dev/" will go away altogether?
where will /dev/clipboard reside?

he meant: mkdir /dev and populate that with your favorite mknod initializer. igor posted one some months ago.

BTW:
colinux uses /dev/cobd<n>
I'd really like to try to mount this beast in cygwin also.
(mke2fs => ddk as in colinux)
-
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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