Re: CoPy to /dev/null fails

2008-07-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 11 22:05, Christian Franke wrote: > Hi, > > this works on Linux: > > $ cp file /dev/null > > but fails on Cygwin 1.5.25-15: > > $ cp file /dev/null > cp: cannot create regular file `/dev/null': Invalid request code > > > /dev/null exists, so /bin/cp opens it with O_TRUNC only. But this fails

CoPy to /dev/null fails

2008-07-11 Thread Christian Franke
Hi, this works on Linux: $ cp file /dev/null but fails on Cygwin 1.5.25-15: $ cp file /dev/null cp: cannot create regular file `/dev/null': Invalid request code /dev/null exists, so /bin/cp opens it with O_TRUNC only. But this fails with EBADRQC (54): fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY|O_TR