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/
A C, D and Z drive (the Z drive is to my backup partition on my Linux box).
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