On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:33:40PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >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.
AFAIK, mknod even works now... The problem is, though, that it is bound to be slower to use a disk-based /dev directory than the current in-memory version. So, the real solution is probably some kind of devfs or udev method, like linux. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/