Major FUD (was Re: Add root drive mapping to default config file)

[Carlos Lozano]

El mar, 03 de jun de 2003, a las 13:22, Todd Vierling escribio:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Carlos Lozano wrote:
> 
> : Even with read-only, i don't like the idea of window programs
> : reading in "/dev" and "/proc".
> 
> Why not?  You can read "//./PhysicalDrive0" in Windows.  And winelib
> programs that choose to access the native libc would have no such
> restriction anyway.

Files in "/dev/" are not normal files. For example you can do a 
"cat /tmp/tmp > /tmp/tmp.2", but try a "cat /dev/urandom > /tmp/urandom".

For example a compress or checksum calculation window application
should have surely problems to handle this type of files.

Regards,
Carlos.

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