Re: dev/null

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
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><6 Jan 2001, 19:11 Uhr wars, als Melvyn Sopacua folgendes schrub:>
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>> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
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>> > 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'.
>> 
>> And the flags - are they BSD compatible?
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>It was just a try of me as i didn't get dejagnu to run. Normally, 
>/dev/null is emulated inside cygwin and you don't need to set it up.
> I was a little blue-eyed, i made this as a directory, just with 
>windows-explorer, but it didn't solve my problems.

Since /dev/null is not a directory that is hardly surprising.

>Try to ask again, with mknod as subject content.

Or, read the answer that I already provided.

cgf

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