On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:39:47 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
> On 6/11/13 12:16 AM, Infiltrator wrote: > > On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 04:04:03 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 04:02:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu > >> wrote: > >>> The test program is flawed; writeln() writes to stdout, and the > >>> redirection is to stdin. > >> > >> Wouldn't stdin be fd 0? > >> > >> David > > > > What David said. Here's the same thing done to a cat (poor kitty): > > > > $ cat 1</dev/null > > test > > cat: write error: Bad file descriptor > > No, this is also wrong. cat reads and writes, "hello world" only > writes. Consider: > > echo meh 1</dev/null > > Always succeeds. > I just tried both on Debian 6: nick@debian6:~$ cat 1< /dev/null cfws cat: write error: Bad file descriptor nick@debian6:~$ echo meh 1< /dev/null bash: echo: write error: Bad file descriptor Maybe OSX behaves differently?
