This is a tiny little annoyance in Cygwin: various device paths exist, like your controlling terminal /dev/conin. However, there is no actual /dev directory in the filesystem.
This confuses some programs that do parsing on the path rather than just pass the entire string to open(). E.g. CLISP's file I/O library: [6]> (with-open-file (f "/dev/conin" :direction :input) (read f)) *** - nonexistent directory: #P"/dev/" The simple workaround is to ``mkdir /dev'', but would it be a bad idea for the Cygwin installer to create this directory? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
