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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:24:47 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Bash Process Substitution
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Lev S Bishop wrote:

> rather than the fifo that the binary package uses. So perhaps whoever
> built the binary package didn't have /proc/self/fd for whatever reason?

If I'm not mistaken /proc/<pid>/fd capabilty was added 2005-02-01.  The
current bash package (2.05b-16) was released 2003-10-23.  (the test
version -17 was released 2004-11-22.)  So it was quite impossible for
the person who built bash to have that feature.

Brian

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