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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT dcc DOT unicamp DOT br>, Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>,
        "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>, autoconf AT gnu DOT org
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:58:46 +0200
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Subject: Re: patch for autoheader.sh
CC: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>, autoconf AT gnu DOT org, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
References: "Gary V. Vaughan"'s message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:19:03 +0000"
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On 13 Jan 99, at 8:37, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jan 13, 1999, "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvaughan AT oranda DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Jan 13, 1999, Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > No problems with /dev/null in DJGPP. But I don't know how it will be
> >> > with for example CygWin (as I'm not using it).
> >> 
> >> It works.
> 
> > IIRC, cygwin emulates /dev/null properly only on NT.  I'm pretty sure
> > win95 has problems... not sure about win98.
> 
> It worked for me on win98, and I'm pretty sure it used to work on
> Win95 too, but I can't test it any more :-(
> 

One slightly different suggestion (should be more portable than /dev/null).

'exec 1>&2' instead of 'exec >/dev/null' 

Tested in DOS session under Win95 (DJGPP compiled bash) where I initially
met sharing problem and it works. I even tried running 'autoheader 2>&1'
for slight torture and also no problems. 

> > Time for another configure test?
> 
> Ugh!  Better avoid it.  /dev/null is so abused that we'd die before we
> could replace all uses of it with the result of the configure test.
> Better let them broken until Cygnus fixes cygwin, if this is really
> broken.
> 
Andris