On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Paul Munden wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm hoping you could help me. I'm using CYGWIN to run some SMS tools and >> the tools config files need setting up to add the details of which com port >> I'm using. Basically I just need to know how I would go about creating the >> com4 object in /dev so that it does actually point at the com port as when >> installed, CYGWIN came with no /dev or any example of how I would setup the >> com object. >> >> Any help appreciated >> Paul. > >Paul, > >/dev is a virtual directory on Cygwin, just like /proc or /cygdrive. You >should still be able to access /dev/com4. You can create a real /dev >directory, but I don't think you can actually get a list of the devices >there using "ls" (not yet, at least. Perhaps when Christopher Faylor's >mknod code comes out). You can "ls" any individual device, though...
mknod will allow you to create device files but it doesn't handle /dev. When my mount changes come out, you'll be able to mount /dev anywhere and then Chris January's /dev handler will be possible. So maybe in six months or so, we'll have a real /dev directory possible either as a 'devfs' type directory or as a more traditional standard directory with a lot of 'device files' in it. I hope to have mknod and mkfifo in 1.3.20. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/