From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6257 invoked from network); 23 Apr 1998 14:32:21 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Apr 1998 14:32:21 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06407; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:22:14 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:22:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199804231422.QAA15790@sgi.ifh.de> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: PATCH: NO_CLOBBER In-reply-to: "Andrew Main"'s message of "Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:13:04 MST." <199804230913.KAA05486@diamond.tao.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:22:11 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"PPPvE.0.2a1.MwqFr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3860 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Andrew Main wrote: > Looks like someone got too clever, and decided that NO_CLOBBER shouldn't > stop you opening a FIFO. hmm, it wasn't me, but now: /etc/zshrc: file exists: /dev/null [243] am I just going to have to live with this? Seems quite a lot to live with. Particularly since I can't alter this, and the system manager on this machine complains with every incompatibility he has to work around. I earnestly hope some workaround at least for /dev/null can be found. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 50 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Gruppo Teorico, Dipartimento di Fisica Piazza Torricelli 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy