Can't delete an old OpenJDK directory because of NUL files

[Pete Brunet]

Hi Phil, It was from October, a year ago, b75 time.  -Pete

Phil Race wrote:
> Not addressing the how to delete part, but hopefully this is a VERY
> old directory.
> I was getting these files back in the spring and fixed it in May
> in jdk/make/common/shared/Platform.gmk as thus :-
>
> --- a/make/common/shared/Platform.gmk
> +++ b/make/common/shared/Platform.gmk
> @@ -275,7 +275,12 @@ ifeq ($(PLATFORM), windows)
>   endif
>   ARCH_FAMILY = $(ARCH)
>   # Where is unwanted output to be delivered?
> -  DEV_NULL = NUL
> +  # MKS uses the special file "NUL", cygwin uses the customary unix
> file.
> +  ifeq ($(USING_CYGWIN),true)
> +    DEV_NULL = /dev/null
> +  else
> +    DEV_NULL = NUL
> +  endif
>   export DEV_NULL
>   # Classpath separator
>   CLASSPATH_SEPARATOR = ;
>
> -phil.
>
> Pete Brunet wrote:
>> On WinXP I'm unable to delete an old OpenJDK directory because there are
>> a lot of files named NUL which Windows is not able to delete.
>> I can delete them by renaming them one by one with 'ren
>> \\.\c:\full_path\nul xyz' but that would take a long time.  Is there a
>> command available in cygwin that will delete the directory?  Cygwin rm
>> also fails to delete files named NUL.
>>
>> Pete
>>   
>