I eventually did that, I checked and there was a /dev/nul in an unmodified install.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM Andrey Repin <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, Reid Burton! > > > it was failing to delete /dev/nul, > > Cygwin does not create nor use this "file". > Most likely it was created by the user by the means of misspelling the > /dev/null device name. > > You can use Cygwin's rm to remove it, or other tools that can use lower > level > native file API's to avoid driver wrapper filtering. > > > -- > With best regards, > Andrey Repin > Saturday, November 22, 2025 15:29:52 > > Sorry for my terrible english... > > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
