Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > 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, e

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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/s

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: > > > > I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making > > symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical > > /dev directory. But by doing so, I have made it so t

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making > symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical > /dev directory. But by doing so, I have made it so that t

request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical /dev directory. But by doing so, I have made it so that the version of bash that I compile detects their