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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:11:54 +0200
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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.



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