Hi Johannes, On Feb 21 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution (Bash's > very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature). > > For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossible) to generate these > symbolic links in all circumstances where Git for Windows wants to use its > close fork of the Cygwin runtime. > > Therefore, let's just handle these symbolic links as implicit, virtual ones. > > If there is appetite for it, I wonder whether we should do something similar > for `/dev/shm` and `/dev/mqueue`? Are these even still used in Cygwin?
"still used"? These are the dirs to store POSIX semaphors, message queues and shared mem objects. These have to be real on-disk dirs. > Johannes Schindelin (2): > Implicitly support the /dev/fd symlink and friends > Regenerate devices.cc > > winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am | 1 + > winsup/cygwin/devices.cc | 1494 ++++++++++++++++-------------- > winsup/cygwin/devices.h | 3 +- > winsup/cygwin/devices.in | 4 + > winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc | 3 + > winsup/cygwin/fhandler.h | 28 + > winsup/cygwin/fhandler_dev_fd.cc | 53 ++ > 7 files changed, 879 insertions(+), 707 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 winsup/cygwin/fhandler_dev_fd.cc Pushed. Thanks, Corinna
