ls /dev/*

[Andrew DeFaria]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
>
>>> * Andrew DeFaria <Naqerj@QrSnevn.pbz> [2004-11-02 22:07:41 -0800]:
>>>
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Actually I change the cygdrive prefix to dev. Just seems to make 
>>> sense to me that C: would be /dev/c as apposed to /cygdrive/c, which 
>>> is longer to type. When I ls /dev I get:
>>>
>>> $ ls /dev
>>> c/ d/ z/
>>
>> YES! I think this is a great idea!
>
> Ok. One of us is pretty confused. If you want /dev to just contain any 
> random stuff, 

Who said that? I want dev to contain devices. My disk drives are devices 
to me.

> then you could just create the directory and populate it. 

Oh yeah I could choose some other directory. But why? I could just use /dev.

> You could even populate it with devices if you wanted.


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