Bug 407122

Summary:	"kate /dev/stdin" does not work
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Victor Porton <porton>
Component:	application	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	18.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Victor Porton 2019-05-01 10:32:45 UTC

When I start Kate as "kate /dev/stdin", I get the message:

The file /dev/null could not be loaded, as it was not possible to read from it.
Check if you have read access to this file.

Why /dev/null? I provided /dev/stdin as the argument.

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2019-05-18 18:14:01 UTC

Kate/KWrite can't work with such device files.

Why it doesn't report /dev/stdin?
That depends to which device stdin is connected, in your case dev/null, as perhaps stdin was closed, I get here some pts/X device for my virtual console.