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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.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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