X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:43:33 -0400 From: "Jeff Lange" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: XP embedded In-Reply-To: <20060412095556.GC10758@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060412095556.GC10758@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k3CBhkNZ030616 /dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to use /dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer get the bash error on start up. Perhaps the cygwin libraries should be modified so that if the windows NUL device doesn't exist, it should use a different method. Thanks. -Jeff On 4/12/06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 11 14:22, Jeff Lange wrote: > > Hi all, > > While searching though the mail list archives, I found a posting > > back on March 9th asking about XP Embedded SP2 and the error > > "/dev/null: No such file or directory". > > > > Everyone blasted the poster for running a really old version of Cygwin. > > > > Well I'm running into the exact same problem, except that I'm running > > the latest version of Cygwin. When I start a console I get the message > > "bash: /dev/null: No such file or directory" > > > > I did a little playing around and if I try to pipe anything out > > /dev/null I get the error. just for kicks I tried creating /dev/null > > using mknod, but it failed saying that the file already exists > > > > I have the exact same installation on regular XP SP2 and this problem > > does not exist > > > > Let me know if you have any ideas on what the issue might be. > > /dev/null in Cygwin is a direct connection to the NUL device of > Windows. It looks like this device simply doesn't exist on > embedded XP. However, further debugging would be required by > somebody actually owning embedded XP (e.g. you). > > As a workaround, try redirecting output to /dev/zero which is not > implemented using the Windows NUL device. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/