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Re: exu and ex.err

• Posted by Raude Riwal <RAUDER at THMULTI.COM> Aug 31, 1999
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forgive the late answer (I was on holidays). just one point:
for no error file, use /dev/null ...

Riwal Raude
rauder at thmulti.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Craig [SMTP:rds at ATTCANADA.NET]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 10:11 PM
> Subject:      Re: exu and ex.err
>
> Brian Jackson writes:
> > On the 'nix platform, there may be times when a
> > particular user has read only access to a particular folder,
> > which means if anything goes wrong, exu will not have the
> > rights to create an ex.err in the current directory.
>
> A while back I considered adding a crash_file("...")
> library routine that would let you specify the relative or
> absolute path name of the error file (normally "./ex.err").
> I guess I'll go ahead with that for the Linux alpha release.
> You'll be able to write the error file anywhere you like.
> Maybe "" will mean "no error file".
>
> Currently, exu should notice that it can't open ex.err, and should
> issue a brief message to standard error.
>
> Regards,
>      Rob Craig
>      Rapid Deployment Software
>      http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/