On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Alex Romosan wrote:

> i've tried:
> 
> echo test | gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/stderr";}'
> 
> and
> 
> echo test | gawk '{print $0 > "/dev/fd/2";}'
> 
> and both give me the same error:
> 
> gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to
> `/dev/fd/2' (Permission denied)

Check that /dev/fd is a symbolic link to /proc/self/fd.  Check that
/proc is mounted.

The permissions to /proc are determined by the kernel, so there's
really no way that they could be wrong.


Guy

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