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permission issue? |
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any EACCES in strace output? |
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Amit |
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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes: |
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>>> $cat /tmp/testfile |
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>>> cat: nonexistantfile: No such file or directory |
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>> Thanks... |
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>>> Are you running cvs as root, or user, or ...? |
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>>> |
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>> I was running cvs as user, and now trying your tests... it appears the |
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>> trouble has stopped... doesn't occur now in cvs cmds either. |
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>> There was a reboot in between, so may never now what was going on. |
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>> Prior to rebooting I had tried to get a fresh env by ssh |
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>> user@localhost from an xterm. Hoping to rule out some oddball env |
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>> problem, but the file descriptor problem persisted. However it has |
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>> apparently not survived a reboot. |
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> Yikes... more mysterious than I reported above. |
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> I see now that I get the goofy acting file descriptors when I'm in |
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> console mode, but not in X. |
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> And it appears only to happen in cvs commands, but again, not in X. |
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> My sequence: |
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> Reboot just now. |
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> At console login: |
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> login and call cvs command: |
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> cvs -n update /usr/local/common/base 2>er |
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> I see 83 lines scroll by. |
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> cat er |
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> cat: er: No such file or directory |
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> Nothing has been redirected. |
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> cvs -n update /usr/local/common/base 2>er|wc -l |
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> I still see 83 lines but wc -l reports 0 |
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> (as it should) |
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> So somehow the redirect is ignored and stderr goes to console |
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> anyway. |
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> Trying your test |
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> cat none 2>er |
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> cat er |
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> cat: none: No such file or directory |
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> So stderr is doing what it is supposed to do with cat but not a cvs |
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> command. |
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> ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- |
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> Now startx and from an xterm: |
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> cvs -n update /usr/local/common/base 2>er |
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> <no output> just like expected |
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> Follow with: |
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> cat er|wc -l |
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> 83 |
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> (83 lines of ouput were captured with 2>er) |
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> So this is more puzzling than ever. Weird phenomena in console that |
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> stops when in X. |
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