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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.linux b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.linux new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ba15c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README_d/OBSOLETE/README.linux @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +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@skeeve.com + +Sun Aug 3 15:07:06 EDT 1997 + +As of version 3.1 of gawk, this is no longer a problem, since gawk now +completely interprets the special file names internally. + +Arnold Robbins +arnold@skeeve.com |