"Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my FC5 box, when I try certain things in bash 3.1.7(1)-release > involving redirection, such as the following, bash crashes > (immediately exits): > > { echo a >&3 ; } 3> >( echo b )
It doesn't crash, it just receives a SIGPIPE, since the process in the process substitution exits without consuming its input. If you are lucky the first echo will be faster... Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash