On Oct 18 13:29, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Eric Blake wrote: > > > [snip] > > Based on user response, I may be convinced to fold in the rest of Igor's > > create_devices.sh [see > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html] into the bash > > postinstall, as it admittedly looks a bit weird when 'ls /dev' shows > > /dev/stdin but not /dev/null (rest assured, all the devices still exist, > > even if a listing of /dev does not show them). > > FYI, mknod works just fine on Cygwin, and I've been using a /ddev > directory populated with mknod for a while now (not in scripts, of course) > with no problems. > > I have a preliminary version of a modified script that uses mknod to > populate a directory with devices. Should we use that instead (and put > this in a postinstall script for the "cygwin" package)?
Why not create a stand-alone package in the base category which consists of just the postinstall script? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
