Use os.DevNull whenever possible

console/console.go

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 )
 
-// Output can be used for temporarily silencing stdout by redirecting to /dev/null or NUL
+// Output can be used for temporarily silencing stdout by redirecting to os.DevNull ("/dev/null" or "NUL")
 type Output struct {
 	stdout  *os.File
 	enabled bool

engine/flags.go

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Available flags:
   --limit=N                    Limit clients to N requests per second
                                (the default is ` + ac.defaultLimitString + `).
   --nolimit                    Disable rate limiting.
-  --nodb                       No database backend. (same as --boltdb=/dev/null).
+  --nodb                       No database backend. (same as --boltdb=` + os.DevNull + `).
   -l, --lua                    Don't serve anything, just present the Lua REPL.
   -s, --server                 Server mode (disable debug + interactive mode).
   -q, --quiet                  Don't output anything to stdout or stderr.
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ func (ac *Config) handleFlags(serverTempDir string) {
 	}
 
 	if noDatabase {
-		ac.boltFilename = "/dev/null"
+		ac.boltFilename = os.DevNull
 	}
 
 	// TODO: If flags are set in addition to -p or -e, don't override those
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ func (ac *Config) handleFlags(serverTempDir string) {
 		ac.cacheMode = cachemode.Development
 	} else if ac.simpleMode {
 		ac.useBolt = true
-		ac.boltFilename = "/dev/null"
+		ac.boltFilename = os.DevNull
 		ac.serveJustHTTP = true
 		ac.serverMode = true
 		ac.cacheMode = cachemode.Off

engine/repl.go

@@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ func (ac *Config) REPL(ready, done chan bool) error {
 				continue
 			}
 		}
-
 		if EOF {
 			if ac.ctrldTwice {
 				switch EOFcount {

engine/serverconf.go

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ func (ac *Config) Info() string {
 	if len(ac.serverConfigurationFilenames) > 0 {
 		buf.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("Server configuration:\t%v\n", ac.serverConfigurationFilenames))
 	}
-	if ac.internalLogFilename != "/dev/null" {
+	if ac.internalLogFilename != os.DevNull {
 		buf.WriteString("Internal log file:\t" + ac.internalLogFilename + "\n")
 	}
 	infoString := buf.String()