Re: Can't redirect to `/dev/stderr' (Permission denied)

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Davis, Ricardo C. <address@hidden> wrote:

> $ gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/stderr";}' gawktest  
> gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=gawktest FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to
> `/dev/stderr' (Permission denied)
> __________________________________________________________________________


The obvious first thing to test: does /dev/stderr still exist? Some
berserk installation program or whatever might have deleted it.

> This should have printed each line of input on stderr.  Using "/dev/fd/2"
> instead of "/dev/stderr" yields the same error.

Same problem: check whether the device file is still there.

> Hmmm ... does gawk use mktemp?  I suspect it probably does and that the most
> recent version has caused the problem.  

Almost certainly not. The package mktemp is a separate utility for use
by shellscripts. Compiled apps like gawk use the C library function of
the same name, which is not part of that rpm package.
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