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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:23:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt AT ABINITIO DOT COM>
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Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Chuck McDevitt wrote:

> While it's not hard to delete the rouge "nul" files, it is a recent change
> to cygwin that allows them to be created at all.
>
> 1.5.9 seemed to treat "NUL" in the normal windows way (equivalent of
> /dev/null), so didn't create these files.
>
> 1.5.10 changed so Cygwin no longer recognizes windows special file names
> like "NUL", and instead treats them like normal files.
>
> Is there a reason for this change?

Read the thread that Dave Korn pointed to.  It was a bug in Cygwin 1.5.10.
The bug was fixed in CVS, and is not present in the latest snapshots.
The recipe for deleting the file was only needed for the systems that have
this bug.  FWIW, the 20040716 snapshot is pretty stable (I'm running it
now)...  YMMV...
	Igor
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