At 11:48 AM 1/21/2004, Kaz Kylheku you wrote: >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?
There's no need. As Chris Faylor has said in the past, we'll be moving away from this pseudo-device emulation. That's a better resolution to the problem than perpetuating the current workaround. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
