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Date:	Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:04:23 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: dev/null
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In-Reply-To:	<3A579C6B.23537.152CFF@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:30:03PM +0100

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
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><6 Jan 2001, 19:11 Uhr wars, als Melvyn Sopacua folgendes schrub:>
>< Re: dev/null >
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>> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> 
>> > I created a dev/null, but then i got this error:
>> > 
>> > # of unexpected failures        2
>> > WARNING: find_version failed:
>> > couldn't read file "/dev/null": permission denied
>> > make[3]: *** [check-DEJAGNU] Error 1
>> > 
>> > How to set up dejagnu or cygwin to handle this?
>> 
>> How did you setup the /dev/null?
>> I can't get `mknod' to work. I always get 'function not supported'.
>> 
>> And the flags - are they BSD compatible?
>
>It was just a try of me as i didn't get dejagnu to run. Normally, 
>/dev/null is emulated inside cygwin and you don't need to set it up.
> I was a little blue-eyed, i made this as a directory, just with 
>windows-explorer, but it didn't solve my problems.

Since /dev/null is not a directory that is hardly surprising.

>Try to ask again, with mknod as subject content.

Or, read the answer that I already provided.

cgf

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