On 10-Mar-2003 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Conrad Sabatier writes:
diff (cat file1) (cat file2)
errors out with:
diff: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
diff: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory
Apparently, the nodes for the named pipes are not being created
I've noticed that bash's process substitution fails under -CURRENT.
For (an admittedly stupid, trivial) example:
diff (cat file1) (cat file2)
errors out with:
diff: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
diff: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory
Apparently, the nodes for the named pipes are
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)
errors out with:
diff: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
diff: /dev/fd/62: No such file or
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:38:08 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Has anybody found out what the standards conformant thing is for /dev/fd ?
There is no standard, other than Tenth Edition and Plan 9. Most
programs which use it expect it to behave like one or the other.
-GAWollman
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:47:15 -0500 (EST), Alien Space Bats attacked
and caused me to utter:
There is no standard, other than Tenth Edition and Plan 9. Most
programs which use it expect it to behave like one or the other.
s/one or the other/that/
-GAWollman
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon 'portlint
' Schubert writes:
These files, conventionally called /dev/fd/0, /dev/fd/1, /dev/fd/2,
and so on, refer to files accessible through file descriptors. If file
descriptor n is open, these two system calls have the same effect:
fd =
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 00:38:08 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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)
errors
Lately Larry Rosenman told:
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 00:38:08 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Conrad Sabatier
writes:
Apparently, the nodes for the named pipes are not being created as they
should.
Is this a bash problem, or
