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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:23:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Chuck McDevitt cc: zzapper , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Chuck McDevitt wrote: > While it's not hard to delete the rouge "nul" files, it is a recent change > to cygwin that allows them to be created at all. > > 1.5.9 seemed to treat "NUL" in the normal windows way (equivalent of > /dev/null), so didn't create these files. > > 1.5.10 changed so Cygwin no longer recognizes windows special file names > like "NUL", and instead treats them like normal files. > > Is there a reason for this change? Read the thread that Dave Korn pointed to. It was a bug in Cygwin 1.5.10. The bug was fixed in CVS, and is not present in the latest snapshots. The recipe for deleting the file was only needed for the systems that have this bug. FWIW, the 20040716 snapshot is pretty stable (I'm running it now)... YMMV... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/