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-rw-r--r--src/pkg/exec/exec.go2
-rw-r--r--src/pkg/os/file_unix.go4
-rw-r--r--src/pkg/os/file_windows.go2
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/exec/exec.go b/src/pkg/exec/exec.go
index ee3cec686b..e1c49004f7 100644
--- a/src/pkg/exec/exec.go
+++ b/src/pkg/exec/exec.go
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func modeToFiles(mode, fd int) (*os.File, *os.File, os.Error) {
if fd == 0 {
rw = os.O_RDONLY
}
- f, err := os.Open("/dev/null", rw, 0)
+ f, err := os.Open(os.DevNull, rw, 0)
return f, nil, err
case PassThrough:
switch fd {
diff --git a/src/pkg/os/file_unix.go b/src/pkg/os/file_unix.go
index 6cf2661406..76033c3e39 100644
--- a/src/pkg/os/file_unix.go
+++ b/src/pkg/os/file_unix.go
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ type dirInfo struct {
bufp int // location of next record in buf.
}
+// DevNull is the name of the operating system's ``null device.''
+// On Unix-like systems, it is "/dev/null"; on Windows, "NUL".
+const DevNull = "/dev/null"
+
// Open opens the named file with specified flag (O_RDONLY etc.) and perm, (0666 etc.)
// if applicable. If successful, methods on the returned File can be used for I/O.
// It returns the File and an Error, if any.
diff --git a/src/pkg/os/file_windows.go b/src/pkg/os/file_windows.go
index 4f7acbb08c..2c1c20ccc6 100644
--- a/src/pkg/os/file_windows.go
+++ b/src/pkg/os/file_windows.go
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ type dirInfo struct {
usefirststat bool
}
+const DevNull = "NUL"
+
func (file *File) isdir() bool { return file != nil && file.dirinfo != nil }
func openFile(name string, flag int, perm int) (file *File, err Error) {