On 06/01/2014 12:39, Ian Jackson wrote: > Alastair McKinstry writes ("'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild"): >> Can anyone answer the following question which is puzzling me; >> I have a piece of csh code which gets called during the build of a package >> i'm maintaining. it does the following: >> >> echo "useful information" > /dev/tty >> >> within the script. (stdout, stderr being redirected, I think). > Others have explained why you shouldn't do this. > > If you want to bypass some redirection in the rest of your package's > build system, you could stash a copy of stderr in fd 3 or 5 or > something (eg, in the rules file, with 3>&2), and then write to fd 5. > > But perhaps more information would enable us to give better advice. > > Thanks, > Ian. > > Thanks, I've been able to adapt the build scripts so it is not necessary; they just output to stdout.
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