Missing /dev

Wed Jan 21 17:45:00 GMT 2004

At 11:48 AM 1/21/2004, Kaz Kylheku you wrote:
>This is a tiny little annoyance in Cygwin: various device paths exist,
>like your controlling terminal /dev/conin. However, there is no actual
>/dev directory in the filesystem.
>>This confuses some programs that do parsing on the path rather than
>just pass the entire string to open(). E.g. CLISP's file I/O library:
>>[6]> (with-open-file (f "/dev/conin" :direction :input) (read f))
>>*** - nonexistent directory: #P"/dev/"
>>The simple workaround is to ``mkdir /dev'', but would it be a bad idea
>for the Cygwin installer to create this directory?

There's no need. As Chris Faylor has said in the past, we'll be moving
away from this pseudo-device emulation. That's a better resolution to the
problem than perpetuating the current workaround.
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