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Re: /dev in B20.1
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: /dev in B20.1
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:47:23 -0500
- Newsgroups: cygnus.gnu-win32
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <74rYqp3ppfB@mike.franken.de>, <3676A54D.1C0194A1.cygnus.gnu-win32@digisle.net>
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JJ Streicher-Bremer wrote:
>
> I just downloaded and installed the user tools version 20.1. What a
> wonderful difference. sshd runs better than ever before (faster more
> stable)! Now I have a question about the /dev folder. The user tools
> don't create it, yet there are quite a few messages about things in the
> /dev folder. How do I go about creating these special files? The main
> reason for this is to get syslogd working.
The files in /dev that cygwin1.dll refers to are synthetic - they
don't actually exist on your file system (unlike unix). When your
program tries to use a file in /dev, cygwin intercepts the request
and handles it internally.
You can still create a /dev directory and put files in it, but they
won't be interpreted as special files. If you need additional special
files in /dev, you'll probably have to modify cygwin1.dll to support
them.
Which special file do you need for sshd?
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