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Re: XP embedded
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 somebody on the list will find a case really soon after
>this change.
In this case, "somebody on the list" is me. I changed this back in 1997
because I wanted my windows apps to really see a null device when
redirected to /dev/null.
cgf
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