Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:32:00 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash2 or devfs problem? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030311103200.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <5257.1047339488@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 10-Mar-2003 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <XFMail.20030310155011.conrads@cox.net>, 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 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.
OK, I took this to mean "use fdescfs", so I loaded the module and tried it
again. Voila, it worked!
Thanks for the clarification there.
--
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
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