Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:08:10 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> >    c:\> make -f -
> >    all:
> > 	echo hi > /dev/null
> > 	echi hi >> /dev/null
> >    ^Z
> 
> On Win2K SP2
> 
> echo hi >> /dev/null
> echo hi > /dev/null
> Cannot redirect output: Permission denied (EACCES)
> make.exe: *** [all] Error -1

Thanks.

Now that I know what code in the library causes the failure, I can throw 
together a test program to see what system call fails.  I will send it 
when it's ready.