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RE: [BUGREPORT] Broken /dev/{stdin,stdout} in 3.0.3 and 4.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Castelijn, Maurice)
Thu Oct 31 06:06:18 1996

From: "Castelijn, Maurice" <Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl>
To: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:25:34 +0100
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>There is a bug in the dev-1.6-1.src.rpm and in the dev-2.3-1.src.rpm in
>3.0.3 and in 4.0:
>
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Oct  8 16:04 /dev/stdin ->
>../proc/self/fd/1
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Oct  8 16:04 /dev/stdout ->
>../proc/self/fd/0
>
>That's obviously wrong. stdin should point to fd 0 and stdout to fd 1.
>It seems to be broken on i386 and on alphas. 

Ah, now that's some useful information. I see it on my Alpha too. But,
could you give me an example when you'd see it fail?

>-Andi

Maurice.




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