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RE: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

From: "Morche Matthias" <Matthias dot Morche at P7S1Produktion dot de>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:16:31 +0200
Subject: RE: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

Public Mailing Lists wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> Don't spread misinformation.  Cygwin is a Unix environment
>> emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about
>> "depending on your installation").
>> 
>> 
> here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation:
> $ ls /dev
> ls: /dev: No such file or directory
...

/dev/null is there, even if /dev isn't.

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