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: <432054BA.4050204@lists.cichon.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:11:54 +0200 From: Public Mailing Lists User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?] References: <090820051504.15123.432052F900038A8700003B1322064246130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <090820051504.15123.432052F900038A8700003B1322064246130A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Eric Blake wrote: >Don't spread misinformation. Cygwin is a Unix environment >emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about >"depending on your installation"). > > here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation: $ ls /dev ls: /dev: No such file or directory It seems that the entire /dev directory is missing. And yes: I have installed Cygwin with the regular setup program. Maybe, you have to select a specific package in order to get /dev/null. It might be interesting to know what you have to do in order to get /dev. -- 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/