On 9/14/07, Lewis Hyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the > > scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users > > create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because > > every script would have to check for this... > > > > Any advice? > > Puzzled about nothing. > > J > > > > > > Did you try it without doing mkdir /dev first? It should still work fine. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ ls -l /dev > ls: cannot access /dev: No such file or directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw-rw- 1 Lewis None 1, 3 Sep 14 11:12 /dev/null > > -Lewis >
Maybe its been gone over before, but I question the wisdom of "hiding" a directory like that. It seems counterintuitive, and obviously causes confusion for people. Does creating a /dev directory (in the default install) cause a big problem? -- 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/
