reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Jun 10 22:39:47 PDT 2013


On 6/11/13 12:16 AM, Infiltrator wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 04:04:03 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 04:02:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> The test program is flawed; writeln() writes to stdout, and the
>>> redirection is to stdin.
>>
>> Wouldn't stdin be fd 0?
>>
>> David
>
> What David said. Here's the same thing done to a cat (poor kitty):
>
> $ cat 1</dev/null
> test
> cat: write error: Bad file descriptor

No, this is also wrong. cat reads and writes, "hello world" only writes. 
Consider:

echo meh 1</dev/null

Always succeeds.


Andrei


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