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Re: Further work on reducing make doc output - GOP 9
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Further work on reducing make doc output - GOP 9 |
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Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:24:02 +0100 |
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Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 02:47:23PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
>> OK - so I don't think anyone has looked at this.
>
> Quick check:
> - what does 6>&1 do? is that a named pipe?
Nope, it redirects the output on file descriptor 6 to file descriptor 1,
the standard output. Somewhere else, something obviously gets
redirected _to_ file descriptor 6.
> - in general all the symbols looks a bit iffy... if we hadn't just
> had a huge issue with python subprocess on windows, I'd suggest
> writing a python script to do this -- it might be 20 lines
> instead of 13, but IMO "stderr" is more understandable than
> "1>&6".
That redirects stdout _to_ file descriptor 6, and would likely be the
source of the stuff that gets back via the other redirection.
--
David Kastrup