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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:31:10 -0700
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
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Subject: Re: What's up with our stdout?
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:17:46AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>
> The question is: what's wrong with our shell or stdout that a
> program (nbcat in this case) can't fcntl-lock the file opened
> for output?  Is this related to the /dev/stdout@ -> fd/1 files
> that we have?  Seems like a shortcoming to me...
> 

Have you reviewed the nbcat source code to determine
what wrong assumptions it is making about stdout and/or
fcntl?

-- 
Steve