Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40B60BAA.10505@scytek.de> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:39:22 -0400 From: Volker Quetschke User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: redirection can create nul files - Was: rm hangs on illegal filename nul References: <40B5F6EB.5030200@scytek.de> <40B5FE65.5080609@scytek.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA7581B7FB79365EDC8901A09" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.2.2 (mrelay3.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.41]); Thu, 27 May 2004 17:39:28 +0200 (MEST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-IsSubscribed: yes --------------enigA7581B7FB79365EDC8901A09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Igor, > A couple more datapoints: > > - You can also create "nul" by "touch nul". > - You can use forward slashes, so "rm //./c:/somedir/nul" works. > - For me (on Win2k SP3), "rm nul" doesn't hang, but doesn't do anything > either. Here neither, but "rm -rf somedir" hangs. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D --------------enigA7581B7FB79365EDC8901A09 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAtguqPTXJup+KeF0RAnoHAKCcGA5mrnzv5cw7EtW8bin9UaCdxgCg07k6 mrlawWleoi+8Hc98PxhImWo= =gYE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA7581B7FB79365EDC8901A09--