$ cat devnull.f90 open(10,file="/dev/null") write(10,*) "Hello, world" end $ gfortran devnull.f90 $ ./a.out At line 2 of file devnull.f90 Fortran runtime error: Invalid argument $ gfortran -v Reading specs from /home/zfkts/lib/gcc/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.0.0/specs Configured with: ../gcc-4.0-20041212/configure --prefix=/home/zfkts --enable-languages=c,c++,f95 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.0 20041212 (experimental)
-- Summary: can't open /dev/null as an output file Product: gcc Version: 4.0.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: libfortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18983