Re: Syslogger tries to write to /dev/null on Windows

2010/4/1 Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>:
> NULL_DEV is defined in c.h as "/dev/null", which doesn't work on
> windows. We have a port-specific #define DEVNULL which does work, we
> should be using that.

Wow. Looking at the code around NULL_DEV, that actually looks like a
merge mistake from the old windows branch or something - it has a
comment stating that it should be different on NT, but it isn't...

> Peter Eisentraut inadvertently fixed this for 8.4:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-12/msg00095.php
>
> by removing NULL_DEV and using always DEVNULL, but back-branches need
> that too. I'll leave NULL_DEV as it is just in case it's used by 3rd
> party modules, but change the two uses of it to use DEVNULL.

Sounds good to me.

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