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Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject:	Re: /dev/null regression in Cygwin 3.6.1
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Bruno Haible via Cygwin wrote:

> Especially since this commit modified select.cc, removing a comment
>   /* TODO: Buffer really full or non-Cygwin reader? */
> and here we are exactly in that case: a non-Cygwin process reading from
> Cygwin's /dev/null.

That's Cygwin's select, it shouldn't have any bearing on what a non-Cygwin
process sees.

What I'm not getting is why ./something < /dev/null should be any
different than doing in CMD something < NUL - I would hope there's not a
pipe to Cygwin to deal with /dev/null but rather just a handle to
Windows' NUL device...

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