Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:14:18 +0200 From: "Mauritz Sundell" <mauritz.sundell@telia.com> To: "Abc Xyz" <abc@anchorageinternet.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /dev/null and 2>&- Message-ID: <013601c22d83$1814b090$0e81a8c0@gilgamesh> References: <200207160805.g6G85rRA001665@anchorageinternet.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Abc Xyz" <abc@anchorageinternet.org> To: "freebsd-questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: /dev/null and 2>&- > i just installed 4.6-RELEASE, and notice that > the '2>&-' sh (FBSD) construct seems to be broken. > i am going thru all my scripts having to change > it to /dev/null ... In what way is it broken? If the construct is generally used for hiding errormessages, one should probably replace it with '2>/dev/null' anyway, since 2>&- only closes filedescriptor 2 at startup of program and the first file the program opens will be assigned the very same and all output to stderr will come up in that file. Example, sh> tee < /dev/null 2>&- empty /nonexistent/missingfile sh> cat empty tee: /nonexistent/missingfile: No such file or directory sh> sh> tee < /dev/null 2>/dev/null empty /nonexistent/missingfile sh> cat empty sh> > > i figure it's not realistic to assume a bug this > obvious would make it to release stage, so my > question is - is something else going on? > or is this just due to changes in 'sh'? > is it a bug? or is it a permenent change? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Mauritz Sundell, mauritz.sundell@telia.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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