From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
3736@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:49:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83skhe3opt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqhbxvjmup.fsf@alcatel-lucent.de>
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:38 +0200
> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 3736@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > There are nearly a hundred places in Emacs lisp sources where
> > /dev/null is used instead of null-device. Please convert those to use
> > null-device so that it gets system-independent. (I wonder what to do
> > with those in Tramp.)
>
> On W32 systems, null-device is "NUL". Not useful for Tramp, it needs
> "/dev/null" on remote machines.
On remote machines, Tramp indeed shouldn't use a value that is correct
for the local OS.
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2009-07-02 12:22 ` bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null Michael Albinus
2009-07-02 13:03 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-02 13:57 ` Sven Joachim
2009-07-02 14:14 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-02 15:10 ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-19 2:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-19 16:32 ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-21 15:16 ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-26 15:28 ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-26 16:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2009-07-02 14:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-02 15:06 ` Michael Albinus
2009-07-02 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-07-01 20:22 Lennart Borgman
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