Re: chown and chmod for /dev/*

[Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 10:26:03PM +0400, Egor Duda wrote:
>  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?

This is a good point.  For now, I've changed chmod and chown to always
succeed with devices.  In the future we'll probably want to do something
more sophisticated.

cgf