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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: problems with QMAILQUEUE and reading stdin
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 11:56:15 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605291153260.24384@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060529154932.GA7293@run.galis.org>


On Mon, 29 May 2006, George Georgalis wrote:

> but I'd also like to get to the bottom of what looks like a
> /bin/sh or kernel bug.

/dev/stdin is just a hack to let you read stdin on programs which insist 
on reading from a filename. I don't see its use as appropriate here.

If you really have time to satisfy your curiosity as to what is going on 
here, then strace (or BSD equiv) is your friend.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-29 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-29  1:58 George Georgalis
2006-05-29  5:23 ` B S Srinidhi
2006-05-29 12:11   ` Charlie Brady
2006-05-29 12:19     ` B S Srinidhi
2006-05-29 13:37       ` George Georgalis
2006-05-29 14:38         ` Charlie Brady
2006-05-29 15:49           ` George Georgalis
2006-05-29 15:56             ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2006-05-29 20:48             ` George Georgalis
2006-05-29 13:59       ` Charlie Brady

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