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 22:04:23 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: dev/null Message-ID: <20010106220423.A14912@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3A575FB8.2040200@nyvlem.mine.nu> <3A579C6B.23537.152CFF@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i 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: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > ><6 Jan 2001, 19:11 Uhr wars, als Melvyn Sopacua folgendes schrub:> >< Re: dev/null > > >> 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple