From 6f687fa071bce424cae702f44f8dc550bccbc1da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Savannah <kata198@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 17:03:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Use os.devnull instead of hardcoding /dev/null which makes
 this windows compatible

---
 func_timeout/StoppableThread.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/func_timeout/StoppableThread.py b/func_timeout/StoppableThread.py
index 37a87d8..d829c45 100644
--- a/func_timeout/StoppableThread.py
+++ b/func_timeout/StoppableThread.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     LICENSE, otherwise it is available at https://github.com/kata198/func_timeout/LICENSE
 '''
 
+import os
 import ctypes
 import threading
 import time
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ class StoppableThread(threading.Thread):
         if self.isAlive() is False:
             return True
 
-        self._stderr = open('/dev/null', 'w')
+        self._stderr = open(os.devnull, 'w')
         joinThread = JoinThread(self, exception)
         joinThread.start()
         joinThread._stderr = self._stderr