On Nov 16 09:27, Igor Peshansky wrote: [YAFQ]
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: > > > [...] it seems like it > > > might be nicer if cygwin/devices.in were to provide them natively for all > > > users. > > > > Dunno about that. On Linux, /dev/std{in,out,err} are just symbolic > > links to fd/{0,1,2} and fd is just a symlink to /proc/self/fd. > > > > So what we should do here IMO is to augment the base-files package > > to create a /dev directory and create a couple of standard symlinks > > in it, which are not covered automatically by the Cygwin DLL. > > There already was some discussion, ending in > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2005-02/msg00010.html>, which > never got a reply... Isn't your create_devices script adding all the devices handled by Cygwin? The idea here is slightly different in that the script should only create symlinks in /dev. Device nodes for the exising Cygwin devices are not actually necessary so we should be careful with them, maybe. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/