Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:03:56 +0200
From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h DOT m DOT brand AT hccnet DOT nl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: Gnu compiler for Perl
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On Thu 14 Jun 2001 15:08, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> 
> > > Does a simple "echo foo > /dev/null" fails as well?  How about 
> > > "echo foo >> /dev/null"?
> > > 
> > > If it does, please write a short test program that does imilar things, 
> > > and step into the I/O functions with a debugger.  We must understand 
> > > what's wrong there to devise a solution or a work-around.
> > 
> > C:\Tmp> sh
> > sh-2.03$ echo Help
> > Help
> > sh-2.03$ echo Help >/dev/null
> > sh: /dev/null: Permission denied (EACCESS)
> > sh-2.03$ echo Help >>/dev/null
> 
> So, what happens if you edit Configure and replace all ">" with ">>" when 
> the target is /dev/null?  Does the script succeed to run then?

I can read your mind!

I just did. (And also submitted a patch to change '>/dev/null', '> /dev/null',
'>>/dev/null' and '>> /dev/null' all to '>>/dev/null' for consistency)

For the moment it passes all /dev/null issues, but now croacks on touch and tr
issues. Should I persue or wait for possible bash changes? (This takes a lot of
time, which - as usual - I'm not overloaded with)

-- 
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