On native Windows, msgfmt (which uses the 'supersede' module) fails when
passed the options -o /dev/null
We have code already to map "/dev/null" to "NUL" on this platform (so that
we don't have to conditionalize this constant in tests and scripts) in
open.c
fopen.c
freopen.c
This patch does the same thing in supersede.c.
2022-07-03 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
supersede: Support the file name "/dev/null" on native Windows.
* lib/supersede.c (open_supersede): On native Windows, map "/dev/null"
to "NUL".
diff --git a/lib/supersede.c b/lib/supersede.c
index 6207286980..a72c4f40e8 100644
--- a/lib/supersede.c
+++ b/lib/supersede.c
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ open_supersede (const char *filename, int flags, mode_t mode,
0;
#endif
+#if defined _WIN32 && ! defined __CYGWIN__
+ if (strcmp (filename, "/dev/null") == 0)
+ filename = "NUL";
+#endif
+
if (supersede_if_exists)
{
if (supersede_if_does_not_exist)
