On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:19:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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.
In this case, "somebody on the list" is me. I changed this back in 1997 because I wanted my windows apps to really see a null device when redirected to /dev/null. cgf -- 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/
