Could you subscribe to cygwin-developers so that we could discuss this patch? I think we need to lay more groundwork before we do something like this and cygwin-patches is not the place for discussing this.
cgf On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:06:19PM +0100, Chris January wrote: >I've had this patch kicking about for a while and I was going to merge it >with the next /proc patch but I remembered that separate patches are >generally preferred on this list and the /proc stuff has been delayed >somewhat. >This patch adds support for a virtual /dev which just lists the devices that >cygwin currently supports. The /dev prefix is read from the mount_table, as >is now the /proc prefix. I haven't added a mechanism to read these from the >registry or allow them to be changed using mount since most programs expect >to find these directories at a fixed location. > >Regards >Chris > >--- >2002-05-22 Christopher January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Makefile.in: Add fhandler_dev.o. > * dtable.cc (dtable::build_fhandler): Add entry for FH_DEV. > * fhandler.h: Add constant for FH_DEV. Add class declaration for > fhandler_dev. Update fhandler_union accordingly. Remove global declarations > for proc and proc_len. > * fhandler_proc.cc: Remove global definitions for proc and proc_len. > * fhandler_proc.cc (fhandler_proc::get_proc_fhandler): Use proc prefix from > mount_table. > (fhandler_proc::exists): Ditto. > (fhandler_proc::fstat): Ditto. > (fhandler_proc::open): Ditto. > * fhandler_process.cc (fhandler_process::exists): Use proc prefix from > mount_table. > (fhandler_proc::fstat): Ditto. > (fhandler_proc::open): Ditto. > * fhandler_registry.cc (fhandler_registry::exists): Use proc prefix from > mount_table. > (fhandler_registry::readdir): Ditto. > (fhandler_registry::open): Ditto. > * fhandler_virtual.cc (fhandler_virtual::close): Remove call to > delqueue.process_queue(). > * path.cc: Add is_dev macro. Use proc prefix from mount_table in is_proc > macro. Add FH_DEV to isvirtual_dev macro. > (path_conv::check): Add FH_DEV support. > (path_conv::get_device_number): Use dev prefix from mount_table. > (mount_info::init): Initialise default prefixes for /proc and /dev. > (mount_info::conv_to_win32_path): Add support for /dev. > * shared_info.h: Add dev, dev_len, proc and proc_len members to > mount_table class. > * fhandler_dev.cc: New file. > >2002-05-22 Christopher January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Makefile.in: Add fhandler_dev.o. > * dtable.cc (dtable::build_fhandler): Add entry for FH_DEV. > * fhandler.h: Add constant for FH_DEV. Add class declaration for > fhandler_dev. Update fhandler_union accordingly. Remove global declarations > for proc and proc_len. > * fhandler_proc.cc: Remove global definitions for proc and proc_len. > * fhandler_proc.cc (fhandler_proc::get_proc_fhandler): Use proc prefix from > mount_table. > (fhandler_proc::exists): Ditto. > (fhandler_proc::fstat): Ditto. > (fhandler_proc::open): Ditto. > * fhandler_process.cc (fhandler_process::exists): Use proc prefix from > mount_table. > (fhandler_proc::fstat): Ditto. > (fhandler_proc::open): Ditto. > * fhandler_registry.cc (fhandler_registry::exists): Use proc prefix from > mount_table. > (fhandler_registry::readdir): Ditto. > (fhandler_registry::open): Ditto. > * fhandler_virtual.cc (fhandler_virtual::close): Remove call to > delqueue.process_queue(). > * path.cc: Add is_dev macro. Use proc prefix from mount_table in is_proc > macro. Add FH_DEV to isvirtual_dev macro. > (path_conv::check): Add FH_DEV support. > (path_conv::get_device_number): Use dev prefix from mount_table. > (mount_info::init): Initialise default prefixes for /proc and /dev. > (mount_info::conv_to_win32_path): Add support for /dev. > * shared_info.h: Add dev, dev_len, proc and proc_len members to > mount_table class. > * fhandler_dev.cc: New file.
