Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

[Amit Dor-Shifer <amitds@oversi.com>]

permission issue?
any EACCES in strace output?
Amit

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