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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2010-07-16 12:49:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2010-07-16 12:49:45 +0300 |
| commit | 6607eb3d5e40b98d2acc8f6b0d6a0b5a4b0f56bd (patch) | |
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Move to gawk-3.0.3.
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diff --git a/README_d/README.linux b/README_d/README.linux new file mode 100644 index 00000000..85973a2f --- /dev/null +++ b/README_d/README.linux @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Thu Apr 17 14:41:17 EDT 1997 + +Some Linux systems, notably RedHat systems through RedHat 4.1, have the +symbolic links for /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout messed up. Specifically, +/dev/stdin is linked to ../proc/self/fd/1 and /dev/stdout to +../proc/self/fd/0. This is backwards. This causes strange behavior +when using those files from within gawk. + +Removing and redoing the symlinks fixes the problem. It is fixed in +post-4.1 RedHat Linux. + +Arnold Robbins +arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu |