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chown and chmod for /dev/*

Hi!

  If one thy to call "chown" of "chmod" functions for cygwin-emulated
files like /dev/tty0 they'll return (-1) and error "path not found".
It doesn't seem to be a major issue -- the only place i've seen, which
is affected by this is sshd, which prints a warning message. But it
certanly could break other programs.
Quick solution is to check win32_path.is_device() in this functions.
Or files like <win32p_path_for_"/">\dev\tty0 should be created to hold
security info -- as more unix-like way?

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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