Subject: Re: Q: How to configure /dev/null
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

19 Nov 1997 07:31:20 -0800
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>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:50:38 -0500
>From: Richard Kasperowski <[email-masked]>
>Reply-To: [email-masked]
>To: Larry Hall <[email-masked]>
>CC: [email-masked]
>Subject: Re: Q: How to configure /dev/null
>
>Larry Hall wrote:
>> 
>> At 05:18 PM 11/17/97 -0500, Richard Kasperowski wrote:
>> >How do I create a valid /dev/null on NT?  TIA.
>> 
>> Create a directory /dev/null.  Works for me.

mkdir /dev
cd /dev
cat << EOD > null
EOD

>
>That doesn't quite work.  For example, the "configure" script for RCS
>5.7 attempts to execute this line:
>
> //d/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/diff /dev/null conftest1
>

A directory of /dev containing a zero length file named null will make 
this work.  For piping and redirection /dev/null is emulated in the 
cygwin.dll and isn't really needed.

>which results in this error:
>
> //d/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/diff: /dev/null/conftest1: No 
such
>file or directory
>
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>Richard Kasperowski          Altisimo Computing
>[email-masked]          Cambridge, MA, USA
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