From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 09:58:03 +0000 (+0200) Subject: supersede: Support the file name "/dev/null" on native Windows. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bfa22a64998a273f5b3790df84dd214fe943afbd;p=gnulib.git supersede: Support the file name "/dev/null" on native Windows. * lib/supersede.c (open_supersede): On native Windows, map "/dev/null" to "NUL". --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a5b6552d0a..a575aba478 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2022-07-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + supersede: Support the file name "/dev/null" on native Windows. + * lib/supersede.c (open_supersede): On native Windows, map "/dev/null" + to "NUL". + 2022-06-23 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com> maint.mk: fix syntax-check for unnecessary hash.h header use diff --git a/lib/supersede.c b/lib/supersede.c index 45b90829b2..898c565ade 100644 --- a/lib/supersede.c +++ b/lib/supersede.c @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ open_supersede (const char *filename, int flags, mode_t mode, 0; #endif +#if defined _WIN32 && ! defined __CYGWIN__ + if (strcmp (filename, "/dev/null") == 0) + filename = "NUL"; +#endif + if (supersede_if_exists) { if (supersede_if_does_not_exist)