Hi Phil, It was from October, a year ago, b75 time. -Pete
Phil Race wrote: > Not addressing the how to delete part, but hopefully this is a VERY > old directory. > I was getting these files back in the spring and fixed it in May > in jdk/make/common/shared/Platform.gmk as thus :- > > --- a/make/common/shared/Platform.gmk > +++ b/make/common/shared/Platform.gmk > @@ -275,7 +275,12 @@ ifeq ($(PLATFORM), windows) > endif > ARCH_FAMILY = $(ARCH) > # Where is unwanted output to be delivered? > - DEV_NULL = NUL > + # MKS uses the special file "NUL", cygwin uses the customary unix > file. > + ifeq ($(USING_CYGWIN),true) > + DEV_NULL = /dev/null > + else > + DEV_NULL = NUL > + endif > export DEV_NULL > # Classpath separator > CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR = ; > > -phil. > > Pete Brunet wrote: >> On WinXP I'm unable to delete an old OpenJDK directory because there are >> a lot of files named NUL which Windows is not able to delete. >> I can delete them by renaming them one by one with 'ren >> \\.\c:\full_path\nul xyz' but that would take a long time. Is there a >> command available in cygwin that will delete the directory? Cygwin rm >> also fails to delete files named NUL. >> >> Pete >> >
