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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:13:41 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: stderr ?= stdout
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On Jan 12 15:14, Sam Steingold wrote:
> alas, the current cygwin reports different inodes for stdout and stderr:
>   -437397064 and 593767114

That looks suspicious.  Are you aware that ino_t is a 64 bit int?

> so, what is the right way to check that two FDs refer to the
> same device?

You didn't tell which device stdout and stderr are connected to.
Are you running this in a local console?


Corinna

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