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Date: | Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:42:13 +0300 |
From: | "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
Sender: | halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il |
To: | "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com> |
Message-Id: | <9743-Thu14Jun2001224213+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> |
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In-reply-to: | <7suhitsd27aqps39ahmnhkvjntsnl87bpr@4ax.com> |
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Subject: | Re: Gnu compiler for Perl |
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:05:21 -0400 > > "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: > > >Mark, could you please see what does Bash do with "> /dev/null" that > >it doesn't do with ">> /dev/null"? > > This program simulates (if I did it right) what Bash does with 'echo x > /dev/null' > and 'echo x >> /dev/null'. Thanks. Based on this source, it looks like the only difference is that ">" cause the library to issue this call: _write(fd, 0, 0); (this should truncate the file). Maybe W2K doesn't like this on devices? This should be easy to test in a short program.
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