Re: !Postprocess and e-mailed summary report

[email protected] (Paul Jarc)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Robin Bowes" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, October 9, 2003 8:47 pm, "Paul Jarc" said:
>> "Robin Bowes" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> tee /dev/stdin
>>
>> tee: warning: cannot open /dev/stdin: Text file busy
>
> I guess you're telling me this won't work! I tried it and it doesn't. Why?

/dev/stdin is a special file referring to the program's own input.  If
it's a pipe, then it's only the reading end, which can't be written
to.  If the program is reading from a regular file, then some OSes
will still not let the program open it for writing via the /dev/stdin
path; others will allow it, but with varying results.


paul
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