On Apr 12 12:05, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote: > > >/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to > > >use /dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer get the bash error > > >on start up. > > FWIW, /dev/zero is not always the proper substitution for /dev/null (i.e., > on input redirection, it will work differently).
Mon dieu! > What I'm wondering is whether we need the Windows NUL device at all for > implementing /dev/null... It's rather trivial[*] to implement one without > resorting to a Windows device. Would there be any way of distinguishing > an emulation from the real NUL device? > Igor Since /dev/null is a really existing native device, it also works for stdio redirection when executing a native Windows process. Off the top of my head I don't know a case for which that really matters, but it's guaranteed that somebody on the list will find a case really soon after this change. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
