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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: shippeys <theshippeys@blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: 4115@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4115: grep and null device
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:34:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83prb2jdhq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001ca1ab4$f5c738b0$e155aa10$@co.uk>

> From: "shippeys" <theshippeys@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:53:05 +0100

Please use Reply-All, to let the bug-tracker archive all the
discussion.

> > > grep: NUL: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Does Cygwin support NUL as the Windows null device?  If not, that's
> > your problem.
> > 
> 
> Yes - Would it be the grep.el code that gets confused and picks NUL?

You are using a native Windows port of Emacs.  NUL is the standard
name of the null device on that system.  Why do you think it gets
confused?

> AIUI the null device is only there to make sure the grep call doesn't hang
> if you forget to pass it files to search. It seems a lot of pain for a
> marginal benefit!

I don't know yet why null device is there.  Seeing the command line
would help.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-11 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <83my65j5u1.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-08-11  8:41 ` bug#4115: grep and null device ts011c8050
2009-08-11 18:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <000001ca1ab4$f5c738b0$e155aa10$@co.uk>
2009-08-11 20:34       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-08-11 22:47         ` Jason Rumney
     [not found]         ` <000c01ca1acf$29cca3b0$7d65eb10$@co.uk>
2009-08-12  3:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-12 17:40   ` bug#4115: marked as done (grep and null device) Emacs bug Tracking System

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