Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Tony Richardson
Jeff Lange gmail.com> writes: > While searching though the mail list archives, I found a posting > back on March 9th asking about XP Embedded SP2 and the error > "/dev/null: No such file or directory". > > Everyone blasted the poster for running a really old version of Cygwin. > > Well I'm run

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:05:04PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote: > >>>/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile t

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:19:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Since /dev/null is a really existing native device, it also works for >stdio redirection when executing a native Windows process. Off the top >of my head I don't know a case for which that really matters, but it's >guaranteed that

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 12 12:05, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote: > > > >/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to > > > >use /dev/

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:05:04PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote: >>>/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to use >>>/dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 12 12:05, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote: > > >/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to > > >use /dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer get the bash er

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote: > >/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to > >use /dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer get the bash error > >on start up. FWIW, /dev/zero is not alway

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:43:33AM -0400, Jeff Lange wrote: >/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to >use /dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer get the bash error >on start up. > >Perhaps the cygwin libraries should be modified so that if the windows >NUL device

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Jeff Lange
/dev/zero does work properly. I changed line 68 in /etc/profile to use /dev/zero instead of /dev/null and I no longer get the bash error on start up. Perhaps the cygwin libraries should be modified so that if the windows NUL device doesn't exist, it should use a different method. Thanks. -Jeff

Re: XP embedded

2006-04-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 11 14:22, Jeff Lange wrote: > Hi all, > While searching though the mail list archives, I found a posting > back on March 9th asking about XP Embedded SP2 and the error > "/dev/null: No such file or directory". > > Everyone blasted the poster for running a really old version of Cygwin. >