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Re: How to delete rogue nul files
- From: Chuck McDevitt <cmcdevitt at ABINITIO dot COM>
- To: zzapper <david at tvis dot co dot uk>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:14:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: How to delete rogue nul files
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?
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