ls /dev/*

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Nov 2 20:01:00 GMT 2004


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.

cgf

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