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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:55:50 +0000
From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvaughan AT oranda DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Organization: Aethos Communication Systems ltd.
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To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT dcc DOT unicamp DOT br>
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Subject: Re: patch for autoheader.sh
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Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> On Jan 13, 1999, "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvaughan AT oranda DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jan 13, 1999, Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote:
> >>
> >> > No problems with /dev/null in DJGPP. But I don't know how it
> >> > will be with for example CygWin (as I'm not using it).
> >>
> >> It works.
> 
> > IIRC, cygwin emulates /dev/null properly only on NT.  I'm pretty
> > sure win95 has problems... not sure about win98.
> 
> It worked for me on win98, and I'm pretty sure it used to work on
> Win95 too, but I can't test it any more :-(
> 
> > Time for another configure test?
> 
> Ugh!  Better avoid it.  /dev/null is so abused that we'd die before
> we could replace all uses of it with the result of the configure
> test.

I don't want to die.  Lets not mess with configure then.  Perhaps the
win95 failure modes are pathological... and we can ignore the problem
for the general case?

> Better let them broken until Cygnus fixes cygwin, if this is really
> broken.

IIRC, the cygwin maintainers are aware of the problem, but expect win95
to go out of fashion before they fix it.

Cheers,
	Gary.