Cannot open special Windows device "NUL"

[natevw]

I can't figure out a way to fs.openSync("NUL") (the Win32 equivalent of "/dev/null").

It seems that, since the open logic resolves to absolute path first, rather than just passing what I provide to the underlying call, that any special files like this will fail under Windows.

[natevw]

Figured it out via this post: fs.open("\\\\.\\NUL", "r") works.

Whether this is a workaround or the expected "right" way to accomplish this I don't know, but it works.

[OrangeDog]

That's the correct UNC path for a device file.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa365247.aspx#Win32_Device_Namespaces