In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Conrad Sabatier writes:
>I've noticed that bash's process substitution fails under -CURRENT.
>
>For (an admittedly stupid, trivial) example:
>
>diff <(cat file1) <(cat file2)
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>errors out with:
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>diff: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
>diff: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory
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>Apparently, the nodes for the named pipes are not being created as they should.
>
>Is this a bash problem, or something in devfs not working as expected?
That's a good question...
Has anybody found out what the standards conformant thing is for /dev/fd ?
presently we do only 0,1 & 2, with the std{in,out,err} symlinks.
If we are required to do all filedescriptors, we should do so with
fdescfs by default.
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