[15157] in Athena Bugs
sun 8.1: /dev/fd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Thu May 15 23:24:05 1997
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 23:23:44 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>
This is actually a bug with both the test release and the production
release at MIT...
/dev/fd/ does not appear to be populated. As a result, you cannot do
such interesting things as:
diff <(command 1) <(command 2)
assuming you are using a shell that supports this (eg. bash). These
types of features rely on the use of /dev/fd/*, which appears on any
vanilla Solaris installation (2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1) but not on the
Athena systems.
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