On Sep 5 21:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:29:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>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. > > > >Unfortunately, command line completion on /d<tab> is pretty useless > >unless you can also do /d<tab>nu<tab> and get /dev/null. > > Let me see if I can say it in another way to avoid YA loop on this > subject. > > Eventually, /dev will be populated with appropriate stuff so that "ls > /dev" will work. It won't be in 1.5.19 but it may be in 1.5.20. > > Think "devfs" or "udev".
As long as we can stick with the ability to create arbitrary files in /dev like, for instance, syslogd's /dev/log local socket or the typical /dev/tape symlink used by mt(1). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
