Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> I have noted (with snap 20050901) that now in '/' it appears 'dev'
> (virtual) directory (and proc):

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01098.html

> Are the message : 'ls: /dev: No such file or directory',

Yes.

> and the date:
> 
>              Jan  1  1970 dev
> 
> correct?

Correct, but the time probably could be set to something more friendly
than the unix epoch.  In this case /dev is a completely synthetic entity
so there is no actual timestamp to report.  Maybe it should report the
time that the computer was booted.

Brian

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