Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:44:19 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: dev/null Message-ID: <20010106134419.B14194@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3A50832B.4039.17B21E45@localhost> <3A575FB8.2040200@nyvlem.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A575FB8.2040200@nyvlem.mine.nu>; from ns6@nyvlem.mine.nu on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:11:04PM +0100 On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:11:04PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: >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'. Right. mknod is not implemented. That's what the error means. /dev/null is intrinsic to cygwin1.dll. Cygwin programs can use it automatically, just like they can use /dev/tty, /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, etc. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple