Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:38:08 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash2 or devfs problem? Message-ID: <5257.1047339488@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:50:11 CST." <XFMail.20030310155011.conrads@cox.net>
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In message <XFMail.20030310155011.conrads@cox.net>, Conrad Sabatier writes:
>I've noticed that bash's process substitution fails under -CURRENT.
>
>For (an admittedly stupid, trivial) example:
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>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.
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>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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