Re: [PATCHES] [Patch] - Fix for bug #2558, InitDB failed to run

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I am more than somewhat perplexed as to why the NUL device should be a
>>>> security risk ... what are they thinking??
>>>>
>>> Frankly, I don't believe it; even Microsoft can't be that stupid.
>>> And I can't find any suggestion that they've done this in a google
>>> search.  I think the OP is misdiagnosing his problem.
>>>
>> An older message suggests that a service pack induced this problem, per
>> MS. I just tried it as non-admin on a W2K3 machine with recent hotfixes,
>> and the command "dir >nul" _did_ work for me.
>> Though neglected, it still sounds like a virus scanner issue to me.
>
> Yes, it seems we will need more information on this.  We need someone at
> a win32 command prompt to show us a "> nul" failure.

OTOH,
what issues might arise if the output is redirected to a legal tmp file?

Regards,
Andreas