From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
        snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:40:16 -0400
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Subject: Re: Bash 2.04 beta 5 released
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> > 'ls | less' produces a left-over temp file (BTW, echo `gdate` doesn't)
> 
> Mark, does the fact that `gdate` behaves differently say something
> important?
> 

All it does it deepen the mystery. Both command piping and command 
substitution use pipes created with pipe(). I don't see why one should work 
and one shouldn't.

Lauryanis, I suggest downloading the latest version I uploaded a few days 
ago. I added some code so a perror generated message is printed when removal 
of the tmp file fails for some reason.

Mark