Maxima can't write to /dev/stdout

Achim Gratz Stromeko@NexGo.DE
Thu Jul 26 09:24:00 GMT 2012


Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> And here something goes wrong.  If I call `echo foo > /dev/stdout' in
> bash, the above normalize_posix_path calls already handle the path
> /proc/196/fd/1, not just /proc/196/fd as lisp does.

Thanks for having a look, that got me one step further.  Maxima uses a (captive)
clisp and the standalone clisp makes the same error:

[1]> (open "/dev/stdout")

*** - OPEN: File #P"/proc/3348/fd/" does not exist

So the same thing happens in clisp and it seems to affect only(?) symlinks
pointing to /proc, some other symlinks I tried that were pointing to /dev/tty as
a test have not had that problem.  Is it possible that clisp uses an API that
isn't aware of /proc somehow?


Regards,
Achim


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