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23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null

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Message #55 received at 3736 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 3736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:49:02 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:38 +0200
> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, 3736 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> 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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