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Re: >/dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, & apropos confused, or just me?


At 07:18 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, linda w \(cyg\) wrote:

I normally use bash and this works in bash:

echo "hello stderr" >/dev/stderr
echo "hello stdout" >/dev/stdout

But in /bin/sh:

$ echo hello stderr >/dev/stderr
cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent
$ echo hello stdout >/dev/stdout
cannot create /dev/stdout: directory nonexistent
$

---
        I'm guessing this isn't supposed to work this way?

        "makewhatis -v" doesn't like seem to like it:
law> makewhatis -v
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent

        I invoked the -v when a simple "makewhatis" yielded
"cd: can't cd to /cygdrive/c/Documents"

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00097.html


Jeremy Hetzler



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