On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > > Don't spread misinformation. Cygwin is a Unix environment > > emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about > > "depending on your installation"). > > here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation: > $ ls /dev > ls: /dev: No such file or directory
A better test would've been "ls -l /dev/null". > It seems that the entire /dev directory is missing. And yes: I have > installed Cygwin with the regular setup program. Maybe, you have to > select a specific package in order to get /dev/null. > > It might be interesting to know what you have to do in order to get > /dev. <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4676548>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
