X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <499B74E8.4060900@byu.net> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:39:36 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: subshell redirection (/dev/fd/x) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Mark J. Reed on 2/17/2009 12:17 PM: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: >> I think that, out of the box, <(...) doesn't work under Cygwin. We had to do >> ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd > > FYI, I have that symlink in a vanilla Cygwin 1.5 install... That symlink is created by the bash postinstall script; if you had problems with setup.exe, it might explain why the symlink might be missing. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmbdOgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBhowCfcpbpUQWYXIWhFAauMMvSCWnI LcwAn1K1h/1sJya5IzX1O8B3racnJOrn =BeFw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/