Jeff Lange gmail.com> writes:
> While searching though the mail list archives, I found a posting
> back on March 9th asking about XP Embedded SP2 and the error
> "/dev/null: No such file or directory".
>
> Everyone blasted the poster for running a really old vers
ly).
> >
> >>>Perhaps the cygwin libraries should be modified so that if the windows
> >>>NUL device doesn't exist, it should use a different method.
> >>
> >>Sorry, no. We already have enough special cases in the code. We're
> >>not
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
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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/
ws
>>>NUL device doesn't exist, it should use a different method.
>>
>>Sorry, no. We already have enough special cases in the code. We're
>>not going to start adding more for XP Embedded.
>
>What I'm wondering is whether we need the Windows NUL devi
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 er
lready have enough special cases in the code. We're not
> going to start adding more for XP Embedded.
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.
he windows
>NUL device doesn't exist, it should use a different method.
Sorry, no. We already have enough special cases in the code. We're not
going to start adding more for XP Embedded.
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On 4/12/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 11 14:22, Jeff Lange wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > While searching though the mail list archives, I found a posting
> > back on March 9th asking about XP Embedded SP2 and the error
> >
On Apr 11 14:22, Jeff Lange wrote:
> Hi all,
> While searching though the mail list archives, I found a posting
> back on March 9th asking about XP Embedded SP2 and the error
> "/dev/null: No such file or directory".
>
> Everyone blasted the poster for running a
Hi all,
While searching though the mail list archives, I found a posting
back on March 9th asking about XP Embedded SP2 and the error
"/dev/null: No such file or directory".
Everyone blasted the poster for running a really old version of Cygwin.
Well I'm running into the exa
Alessandro Balvis wrote:
>
> I installed the TinyOS package, that include the Cygwin 1.3.22, on a
> machine:
Whatever problem you are seeing, I don't think anyone here is interested
in troubleshooting a version that is three years and two dozen releases
out of date. Numerous things have changed
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:20:01PM +0100, Alessandro Balvis wrote:
>I installed the TinyOS package, that include the Cygwin 1.3.22, on a
>machine:
Please go back to whomever provided you with TinyOS and report the
problem there. We don't support ancient versions of cygwin here and
this is not a s
I installed the TinyOS package, that include the Cygwin 1.3.22, on a
machine:
Matrox 4Sight M Unit
Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz with 248MB di RAM
Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Version 2002 SP2
and when I open the Cygwin shell I receive this message:
bash: /dev/null: No such file or directory
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:40:05PM -0500, David L. Morgan wrote:
>I'm running the cygwin on Windows XP Embedded. It seems to work fine
>for my minimal purposes, but for some reason, /dev/null is not working.
>When I type "echo foo > /dev/null" or "echo foo >
Hi folks,
I'm running the cygwin on Windows XP Embedded. It seems to work fine
for my minimal purposes, but for some reason, /dev/null is not working. When
I type "echo foo > /dev/null" or "echo foo >> /dev/null", I get the following
error:
bash: /d
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