On 8/10/16 10:19 AM, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> So what you're saying is that you don't like how SunOS implements /dev/fd
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>> and you'd like bash to override the native implementation semantics.
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> i don't care how sunos implements /dev/fd. i care that bash fails on sunos.
> bash does not do what the following quote from the bash man page says it
> does "If any file argument to one of the primaries is of the form
> /dev/fd/n, then file descriptor n is checked.".
It seems like a documentation error. Bash doesn't second-guess the OS's
/dev/fd implementation if it's there.
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