bug#3736: 23.1.50; Please use null-device instead of /dev/null

Jason Rumney <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:58 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
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Michael Albinus wrote:

> On W32 systems, null-device is "NUL". Not useful for Tramp, it needs
> "/dev/null" on remote machines.
>   

What if the remote machine uses "NUL", "NLA0:" or "Dev:Nul" for its null 
device? I think tramp benefits from the use of null-device instead of 
hard-coded "/dev/null" as much as any other part of Emacs.