https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62330

--- Comment #2 from Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> ---
most likely this is referring to the nul device on Windows. NUL: on DOS (and
CP/M) was what is /dev/null on Unix-likes, I think Windows renamed it to nul
without the colon, but may be wrong.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#DOS,_TOS,_OS/2,_and_Windows

This looks as if we didn't try to resolve output's file name before 1.10.2.
Maybe the file name resolution logic in FileUtils needs to special case "nul"
and "nul:" on Windows (and with it "CON:", "PRN:", "COM1:" and some other
things - yes, I am old ;-).

@Roedy if "discard the output" is what you want, can you use outputproperty as
a workaround?

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