Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

[dsmich]

---- Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 
> > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:56:46 +0200
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > >> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:52 +0100
> > >> From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
> > >> 
> > >> On 2014-06-09 20:32, address@hidden wrote:
> > >> > What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows?
> > >> 
> > >> NUL
> > >
> > > Yes, "nul" case-insensitively.
> > 
> > If I remember correctly, even something like C:\tmp\nul.txt would serve
> > as null device
> 
> Yes, any file name whose basename is nul.WHATEVER is also a null
> device.  "nul" is just the simplest form of all possible ones.
> 
> > though I cannot vouch for this remaining true with NT-based Windows
> > systems.  It was the case for those versions running on top of MSDOS
> > I'm pretty sure.
> 
> It still works on modern Windows systems as well.

This was an old msdos batch file trick.  There was no way to directly tell if a 
directory existed,
But if c:\some\dir\nul "existed" then c:\some\dir did.

Ugh.  Glad those days are long past...

-Dale