Hi Frank, the pretty, standard *ix way is < /dev/null
Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Tuijnman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 13:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug: fhandler_base::dup: (W2K, php, 1.3.9 dll) + work around > > Bug report + work around. > > When calling a bash shell script interactively, it works fine. > When starting it through php (with 'exec') it gives this error: > > fhandler_base::dup: dup(unknown disk file) failed, handle 2F8, Win32 > error 6 > > The problem has been reported earlier (and diagnosed) in the context of > gcc and make. > > The problem arises because the main shell script (activated from php > with 'exec') calls other shell scripts, without assigning standard > input. After calling the other scripts with a dummy standard input ( < > /etc/profile), it works fine. Not pretty, but workable. > > Frank Tuijnman > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
