Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>The shell script check-dialog.sh is called which again do:
>echo "main() {}" | gcc -xc - -o /dev/null

Ouch, I suggested using /dev/null instead of post-removing a.out ^_^
Anyway, SUSE 10.0/i386:

14:20 takeshi:~ > l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Sep  9 18:40 /dev/null
14:20 takeshi:~ > echo 'main(){}' | gcc -xc -c - -o /dev/null
14:21 takeshi:~ > echo $?
0
14:21 takeshi:~ > l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Sep  9 18:40 /dev/null


14:22 takeshi:/home/jengelh # echo 'main(){}' | gcc -xc -c - -o /dev/null
14:22 takeshi:/home/jengelh # echo $?
0
14:22 takeshi:/home/jengelh # l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Sep  9 18:40 /dev/null


So what is (not) happening?

>And it seems that gcc will trash /dev/null in your setup when doing
>this.
>One fix would be to avoid the two lines during distclean,
>but I may have to resort to a temporary file.
>
>Could you please confirm that the above command is the one that trashes
>/dev/null, then I will try to cook up something better.


Jan Engelhardt
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