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Re: [bulk] - R: /dev/ttys* under cygwin problem


On 9/22/2010 1:29 PM, Daniel Barclay wrote:
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
...
To go there directly:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices


Regarding where that page says:


These devices cannot be seen with the command ls /dev/ ...

I've wondered about that--why aren't those special files listed in a
directory listing?

(The Cygwin DLL makes those device files appear when they are referred
to by full pathname; why doesn't it also make them appear in the
containing directory's listing?)

They are implemented in a virtual file system. It is not necessary that there be placeholders in the file system for them to work. But if you prefer that, you can add them. This is why the documentation has a link to the script to create the devices in the file system:

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/txt00028.txt>

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