Process Substitution / Named Pipes in cygwin 1.7.11-1
Gregory M. Turner
gmt@malth.us
Wed Apr 11 17:40:00 GMT 2012
----- Original Message (Corinna) -----
> On Apr 3 10:32, Sven Severus wrote:
> > On Apr 2 17:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I am running Cygwin DLL 1.7.11-1 and the bash command
> > > > "cat < <(echo 1234)" (not very profound, ok) works fine
> > > > on my Win7-64 box.
> > > >
[snip]
> > >Does /dev/fd exist and is it a symlink to /proc/self/fd?
> >
> > It does not exist.
> >
[snip]
> Why not start with
>
> ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd
Reeeeeely! I assumed it was just me, as I have an old-ish
self-compiled bash in a highly nonstandard environment.
I have the symlink, but my process-substitution-happy shell scripts
started breaking this way, recently, as well.
Mine die, suggestively, at /dev/fd/63. They don't /always/ all die; but
somehow, I crossed some kind of rubicon and now they do all die. If
I carefully smell the air afterwards there is the faint odor of scarce
OS resources leaking. (Just kidding about that last part :P)
Haven't been able to clear out the process table or generally to
"get all diagnostic" on it yet; it's on my list but I really
must finish some paperwork for a certain government agency.
I'll get back to the list with whatever I can figure out about
this sometime soon.
-gmt
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