Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 <at> gmail.com> writes: > It appears the problem lies with creating a file named "NUL" windows > utilities just don't know how to deal with it (you can recreate it by > creating a folder, then from cygwin bash $ touch NUL) then try and > remove the folder with windows explorer.
That is likely a bug in the build system of whatever you were trying to build, I can't think of any reason why under Cygwin it wouldn't use /dev/null instead of NUL (that's a device name under Windows for compatibility with DOS). Regards, Achim. -- 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
