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bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null
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Sven Joachim |
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bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null |
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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:57:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
On 2009-07-02 15:03 +0200, Jason Rumney wrote:
> Michael Albinus wrote:
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>> On W32 systems, null-device is "NUL". Not useful for Tramp, it needs
>> "/dev/null" on remote machines.
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> 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.
Not really, you know what null-device should be for the local machine,
but not for remote computers.
Sven