From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: 3736@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:06:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nqab3njf9k.fsf@alcatel-lucent.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4CB03E.2000602@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:58 +0800")
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
>> On W32 systems, null-device is "NUL". Not useful for Tramp, it needs
>> "/dev/null" on remote machines.
>
> What if the remote machine uses "NUL", "NLA0:" or "Dev:Nul" for its
> null device? I think tramp benefits from the use of null-device
> instead of hard-coded "/dev/null" as much as any other part of Emacs.
In case Tramp uses "/dev/null", the remote machine is expected to be
unixish. For other remote machine types, "/dev/null" is not used.
I would not carve this sentence in stone, but that's the situation
today.
Best regards, Michael.
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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 [this message]
2009-07-02 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-01 20:22 Lennart Borgman
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