Re: MinGW vs. c-api.test

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:56:46 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:05:52 +0100
> >> From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
> >> 
> >> On 2014-06-09 20:32, address@hidden wrote:
> >> > What’s the name of /dev/null on Windows?
> >> 
> >> NUL
> >
> > Yes, "nul" case-insensitively.
> 
> If I remember correctly, even something like C:\tmp\nul.txt would serve
> as null device

Yes, any file name whose basename is nul.WHATEVER is also a null
device.  "nul" is just the simplest form of all possible ones.

> though I cannot vouch for this remaining true with NT-based Windows
> systems.  It was the case for those versions running on top of MSDOS
> I'm pretty sure.

It still works on modern Windows systems as well.