From: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@siemens.com>
To: "'Le Wang'" <lewang@yahoo.com>,
"'Zsh users list'" <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: RE: cygwin + /dev/stderr
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:36:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F03A0B5E4@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030119231354.35178.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com>
> Hi all,
>
> I use /dev/stderr in my scripts profusely. Now that I
> started using cygwin, these scripts would generally
> fail. I understand that Bash has built in /dev/*
> handling for cygwin, is there any plans for ZSh to
> develop similar features?
>
/dev/stderr is not and never has been portable. Any script that relies on
that is flawed as you just discovered.
> What's the best way for me to handle this without
> modifying all of my scripts?
>
The best way would still be to modify your scripts to avoid this problem in
future :) Who knows, may be you will use another Unix someday.
What version of Cygwin are you using? I have vague memory that Cygwin
emulates /dev/std* as well but may be wrong here.
-andrej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-19 23:13 Le Wang
2003-01-20 5:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-01-20 11:36 ` Borzenkov Andrey [this message]
2003-01-25 4:49 ` Christopher Faylor
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