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Re: dev/null

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:11:04PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
>> I created a dev/null, but then i got this error:
>> 
>> # of unexpected failures        2
>> WARNING: find_version failed:
>> couldn't read file "/dev/null": permission denied
>> make[3]: *** [check-DEJAGNU] Error 1
>> 
>> How to set up dejagnu or cygwin to handle this?
>
>How did you setup the /dev/null?
>I can't get `mknod' to work. I always get 'function not supported'.

Right.  mknod is not implemented.  That's what the error means.

/dev/null is intrinsic to cygwin1.dll.  Cygwin programs can use it
automatically, just like they can use /dev/tty, /dev/mem, /dev/kmem,
etc.

cgf

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