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gawk 3.1.5

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1Thu Apr 17 14:41:17 EDT 1997
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3Some Linux systems, notably RedHat systems through RedHat 4.1, have the
4symbolic links for /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout messed up. Specifically,
5/dev/stdin is linked to ../proc/self/fd/1 and /dev/stdout to
6../proc/self/fd/0. This is backwards. This causes strange behavior
7when using those files from within gawk.
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9Removing and redoing the symlinks fixes the problem. It is fixed in
10post-4.1 RedHat Linux.
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12Arnold Robbins
13arnold@gnu.org
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15Sun Aug 3 15:07:06 EDT 1997
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17As of version 3.1 of gawk, this is no longer a problem, since gawk now
18completely interprets the special file names internally.
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20Arnold Robbins
21arnold@gnu.org
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