GNU bug report logs - #3736
23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:30:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:22:36 +0200

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.)


In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-06-30
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 232 days ago.

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