https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732910 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732910#c27 --- Comment #27 from Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net> 2011-12-22 05:37:43 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=468604) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=468604) A shell script for testing redirect to "/dev/stderr According to the documentation that I could find (with google search), opening "/dev/fd/n" is supposed to be equivalent to dup() of file descriptor n. If file descriptor n is opened for append, then a dup would still be appending. The behavior I am seeing for /dev/stderr (which is a symlink to /dev/fd/2 ) does not act that way. Running the "xtest" script on a solaris 8 system gives the expected results. Running on openSUSE 12.1 gives what I believe to be the wrong results, in that it truncates the file instead of appending. I also tested on a debian system Linux turing 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 03:59:20 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux and that also gave the wrong results (the same results as I am seeing on 12.1) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.