On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:11 +0200, Nicolas Boudin wrote: > > You are making invalid assumptions. Have a look into > > /usr/include/cygwin/types.h and /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h > > and see the light. After that, make a mental note: > > > > "Never create a device number other than by using the makedev macro" > > OK, thank you. :) Now that I am enlightened I will enlight the guy who made > this mistake in a program I am using. ;)
Nicolas, I should point out that the device node handling in the NFS server isn't as good as it should be :-/ If you export a directory from Cygwin using the NFS server, mount it on an Linux system, and then create a device node on the NFS mount from the Linux system... well, that's just plain broken. Translation of device node major/minor numbers *does* work properly if the device node is created under Cygwin and then exported via NFS, though. So if you're going to create device nodes for a Linux root file system, you'll want to create those under Cygwin, instead of from the system where you mount the NFS export. -Samrobb -- 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/