From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Gnu compiler for Perl
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:05:21 -0400
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"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'. I put in calls to 'perror' to show at what point the
program fails (if anywhere). This works under win98. Try it under w2k and report the
results. If this works, try modifying the example to run a program instead of
printing a message.

#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>

/* Simulate the script:
   echo "abc" > /dev/null
   echo "abc" >> /dev/null
*/

int main()
{
  int fd1, fd2, ret;

  fd1 = dup(1);

  /* open /dev/null */
  fd2 = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT, S_IWUSR);

  if (fd2 < 0)
  {
    perror("#1");
    return 1;
  }

  if (dup2(fd2, 1) < 0)
  {
    perror("#2");
    return 1;
  }

  /* echo "abc" > /dev/null */
  printf("abc");
  putchar('\n');
  fflush (stdout);

  if (dup2(fd1, 1) < 0)
  {
    perror("#3");
    return 1;
  }

  close(fd2);

  /* echo "abc" >> /dev/null */
  fd2 = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY | O_APPEND | O_CREAT, S_IWUSR);

  if (fd2 < 0)
  {
    perror("#4");
    return 1;
  }

  if (dup2(fd2, 1) < 0)
  {
    perror("#5");
    return 1;
  }

  printf("abc");
  putchar('\n');
  fflush (stdout);

  if (dup2(fd1, 1) < 0)
  {
    perror("#6");
    return 1;
  }

  /* close up shop */
  close (fd2);
  close (fd1);

  printf("Success!\n");
  return 0;
}

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