On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:03:25PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Angelo Graziosi wrote: > >> I have noted (with snap 20050901) that now in '/' it appears 'dev' >> (virtual) directory (and proc): > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01098.html > >> Are the message : 'ls: /dev: No such file or directory', > >Yes. > >> and the date: >> >> Jan 1 1970 dev >> >> correct? > >Correct, but the time probably could be set to something more friendly >than the unix epoch. In this case /dev is a completely synthetic entity >so there is no actual timestamp to report. Maybe it should report the >time that the computer was booted.
It really isn't worth the effort to implement this. Eventually, /dev will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now, I thought it would be useful for it to show up in / to stop the "/d<tab> doesn't show up in command line completion" complaints. If I've just traded the command line completion complaints for the above I guess it wasn't a very good trade. cgf -- 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/
