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From: "Jeff Lange" <jlange6648 AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: XP embedded
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/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 <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> 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
>
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