From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10108041914.AA13523@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: Windows 2000 /dev/null permission query
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:14:24 -0500 (CDT)
Cc:	acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au
In-Reply-To:	<1438-Sat04Aug2001171146+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 04, 2001 05:11:47 PM
X-Mailer:	ELM [version 2.5 PL2]
Mime-Version:	1.0
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To:	nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To:	listserv AT delorie DOT com

> It's not a Bash issue, it's an issue with one of our library functions
> called when we redirect output: some of them fail on Windows 2000 when
> the target is the null device (or maybe any device they emulate for
> DOS).

In particular, open on /dev/null fails using O_TRUNC

Haven't had a chance to debug further.

- Raw text -