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Greetings, Reid Burton!

> it was failing to delete /dev/nul,

Cygwin does not create nor use this "file".
Most likely it was created by the user by the means of misspelling the
/dev/null device name.

You can use Cygwin's rm to remove it, or other tools that can use lower level
native file API's to avoid driver wrapper filtering.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, November 22, 2025 15:29:52

Sorry for my terrible english...


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