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Re: /dev
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: /dev
- From: cgf at cygnus dot com (Christopher G. Faylor)
- Date: 28 Jul 1998 21:53:24 GMT
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <9807272118.AA21390@porsche>, <Pine.GSO.3.96.980728085217.6371A-100000.cygnus.gnu-win32@jptdmg2>
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.96.980728085217.6371A-100000.cygnus.gnu-win32@jptdmg2>,
Geoffrey Norton <geoffrey@jpint.toronto.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I recently installed B19, and everything is fine, except my /dev
>directory didn't get created. Am I missing something? I uninstalled and
>reinstalled, to no avail. I need to have ptys and ttys for some perl
>scripts that I'm working on (Expect stuff), and this is getting quite
>frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The /dev directory does not exist outside of the imagination of the
cygwin DLL. Things like /dev/null, /dev/tty, /dev/tty1, and /dev/ptmx
are understood by cygwin but you can't actually do a directory on them.
Yet.
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