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Re: cygwin 1.7: why there is a directory E/cygwin/dev in the tree of cygwin ?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:44:32 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7: why there is a directory E/cygwin/dev in the tree of cygwin ?
- References: <485797401003160836l4a74aee2q527fa059765502a9@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:36:59PM +0100, rolandc wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have installed cygwin 1.7 in e:\cygwin1.7
>After installation, there is a "strange" directory :
> /E/cygwin1.7/dev/ (posix path)
> E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev (win32 path)
>
>What is the role of this directory?
It is "/dev".
>Is it important?
Yes.
cgf
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