Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:12:54 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:11:55
> 
> > > d:/> echo hi > /dev/null
> > > bash: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCES)
> > 
> > This is another known problem with W2K which awaits its research and
> > solution.  Try this:
> > 
> >   echo hi >> /dev/null
> 
> Under Win2000 SP2 it says
> "The system cannot find the path specified."

Inside Bash or from cmd.exe?  The error message sounds like the
latter.

The command should be invoked from Bash, since cmd.exe doesn't support
/dev/null.

> > To resolve this, someone should step with a debugger into the relevant
> > library functions and see what does W2K break there.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I don't have access to W2K, so I cannot dig into this.
> 
> I'd be happy to run any test programs on Win2K (plain, SP1, SP2) and
> report results.

Thanks, I will see if I can come up with something.

Hm, actually, here's one thing to try:

   c:\> make -f -
   all:
	echo hi > /dev/null
	echi hi >> /dev/null
   ^Z

(Please make sure you don't have SHELL set in the environment, before
you run this.  I want the internal emulation of command.com built into
libc.a, not Bash, to run the above two commands.)

TIA