On 06/02/2012 02:12 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 02 June 2012 16:39:16 Zac Medico wrote:
>> On 06/02/2012 12:54 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> if [[ ! -L /dev/fd/${fd} ]] ; then
>>> eval "exec ${fd}${redir}'${file}'" && break
>>> fi
>>
>> I launched up a GhostBSD livedvd to see what /dev/fd/ looks like on
>> FreeBSD, and it seems to contain plain character devices instead of
>> symlinks to character devices:
>
> i didn't want to use [ -e ] because of broken links, but it seems that Linux
> has diff semantics with /proc and broken symlinks. `test -e` will return
> true.
> -mike
How about if we just create a fallback mode for older bash, where no
pipes are involved, and multijob_post_fork just uses `wait` to check
status and effectively causes only one job to execute at a time?
--
Thanks,
Zac
