Is this a bug which is fixable in Cygwin or just something to be lived with?
% gcc -o /dev/null devnull.c % ls -ld /dev/null* crw-rw-rw- 1 dboyce Domain Users 1, 3 Sep 9 09:14 /dev/null -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 dboyce Domain Users 53827 Sep 9 09:14 /dev/null.exe % file /dev/null.exe /dev/null.exe: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows I'm aware of the .exe back story but this should be a special case, I think. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple