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 Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:55:44 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: redirection can create nul files - Was: rm hangs on illegal filename nul Message-ID: <20040527155544.GC8105@coe.bosbc.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <40B5F6EB.5030200@scytek.de> <40B5FE65.5080609@scytek.de> <40B60BAA.10505@scytek.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40B60BAA.10505@scytek.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: >Igor wrote: >>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. Hasn't that point been made several times? Are we starting an email loop now to correspond to the hang? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/