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RE: cygwin + /dev/stderr

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From: Borzenkov Andrey <Andrey.Borzenkov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Le Wang'" <lewang@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Zsh users list'" <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: cygwin + /dev/stderr
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:36:13 +0300
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> 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

Follow-Ups:
- Re: cygwin + /dev/stderr
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References:
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