Cliff Hones wrote: > .. One further possibly useful piece > of informaion - the create timestamps on the odd directories are all the > same, and 14 seconds later than the timestamp on the correct "dev" directory.
Looking at the install log, I see this timestamp matches the time the bash.sh postinstall was run, so it would have been this snippet which did it, I imagine: # Install /dev/fd, /dev/std{in,out,err}. The bash builtin test was compiled # to assume these exist, so use /bin/test to really check. DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')" mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple