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I eventually did that, I checked and there was a /dev/nul in an
unmodified install.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Saturday, November 22, 2025 15:29:52
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
>

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