RE: ls /dev/*

["Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>]

> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:08:44AM -0000, Chris January wrote:
> >> > * Christopher Faylor
> >> <pts-ab-crefbany-ercyl-cyrnfr@pltjva.pbz> [2004-11-02 
> 15:01:13 -0500]:
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> >> >>why isn't /dev a more "usual" directory?
> >> >>cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while
> >> >>cat /dev/clipboard works.
> >> >
> >> > No one has implemented the special handling required for 
> /dev which 
> >> > would enable things like opendir/readdir or cd to work.
> >> 
> >> Thanks, I guessed that much.  I also know about "PTC".
> >> (fhandler_proc.cc is too long,
> >> I guess fhandler_dev.cc would be just as long, and I suspect that 
> >> fhandler_dev.cc is not the only this missing).
> >> 
> >> Is this on anyone's TODO list?
> >Actually it's not that difficult. I've already implemented 
> it once. See 
> >this
> >patch:
> >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2002-q2/msg00191.html
> >It was due to be merged sometime around 1.3.12 but I think I and the 
> >maintainers forgot about it. Feel free to update the patch to latest 
> >CVS and re-submit it.
> 
> Actually, please don't.  I think you misinterpret the 
> discussion in cygwin-developers.  Now that you've 
> reacquainted me with the discussion, I remember why it wasn't 
> applied as-is.  My plan was for /dev to go away as a special 
> mount.  Now that mknod works, this is more doable than it was in 2002.
Ah yes - I remember now why it wasn't committed in the first place.

Chris


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