On Aug 27 14:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2019-08-27 11:54, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >> mkdir(2) has some special code from 2009 which drops trailing
> >> {back}slashes to perform a bordercase in mkdir Linux-compatible.
> >> This code snippet doesn't exist in rmdir(2).
> > 
> > While we're discussing oddities, creating symbolic links in the virtual
> > /dev directory still works and those links show up in the real
> > (underlying) Windows directory as well.  This is why the Bash
> > postinstall still works and I'm not sure if it should do that the way
> > it's written.
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices
> lists the process devs, "udevs", and NT mappings, and specifies that the /dev
> directory is real to allow symlinks like cdrom/dvdrw -> sr0/scd0 and
> gps0/pps0/gpspps0 -> ttyS0.
> 
> I notice /dev/kmsg documented but no longer appears, but /dev/log[=] exists if
> syslog-ng is running; and /dev/pipe and /dev/fifo are mentioned but don't exist.

Some of this is old cruft.  But hey, documentation fixes are just as
welcome as code fixes ;)


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer