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 #74 received at 3736-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 3736-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>,
 Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:47:57 -0800

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

> I have applied all respective changes in the master branch which look
> obvious to me. There are still ~40 occurences of /dev/null in the lisp
> directory, but most of them are comments. So I'll close this bug.

Thanks for taking care of all that.

> If people are interested in fixing the few other places, they could do
> now by using the null-device variable or function. In case they don't
> know what's better, a new bug report for the given case would do,
> instead of keeping *this* bug report open forever.

Sounds reasonable.
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