On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:43:11PM -0500, Brent Cook wrote:
> /dev/null will be available on any POSIX system, but _PATH_DEVNULL may
> not, e.g. Solaris. There doesn't seem to be any advantage to
> using the define (and we don't use it much in the tree either.)

Also OK claudio@
 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap10.html
> ---
>  src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntp.c b/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntp.c
> index b89ddf2..ddb9cf1 100644
> --- a/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntp.c
> +++ b/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/ntp.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ ntp_main(int pipe_prnt[2], int fd_ctl, struct ntpd_conf 
> *nconf,
>       if ((se = getservbyname("ntp", "udp")) == NULL)
>               fatal("getservbyname");
> 
> -     if ((nullfd = open(_PATH_DEVNULL, O_RDWR, 0)) == -1)
> +     if ((nullfd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR, 0)) == -1)
>               fatal(NULL);
> 
>       close(pipe_prnt[0]);
> --
> 2.4.5
> 

-- 
:wq Claudio

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