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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:55:01 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Christopher Black <cblack@securecrossing.com>
Subject:   Re: Problems with command line scratch files in zsh
Message-ID:  <17068.52053.94054.895966@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050613000119.K19998@maren.thelosingend.net>
References:  <17067.62149.92183.56827@guru.mired.org> <1118608948.705.6.camel@localhost> <20050613000119.K19998@maren.thelosingend.net>

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In <20050613000119.K19998@maren.thelosingend.net>, Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net> typed:
> 
> * Mike Meyer wrote [2005-06-12 03:31 -0500]
> >  > guru% wc <(cat /etc/motd)
> >  > wc: /dev/fd/11: open: No such file or directory
> 
> Did you mount the fdescfs filesystem? I have this in my /etc/fstab:
> 
> fdesc    /dev/fd      fdescfs      rw      0       0

That indeed was the problem. Such wasn't required for 4.X. I couldn't
find anything about this searching the FreeBSD web site, or checking
/usr/src/UPDATING. Maybe there's somewhere else I should have looked?

If not, this change should be mentioned in one of those places.

	thanks,
	<mike
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>		http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.



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