Re: bash process substitution does not work in FreeBSD 5.2.1 with devfs(5)

[Chet Ramey]

> > Upgrade.  Bash-3.0 tests for this at configure time.
> > 
> > Chet
> 
> The above results were obtained with
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> and
> FreeBSD 5.2.1.
> 
> 
> The bash configure script should probably be extended to include code similar 
> to 
> the above in addition to the test -r /dev/fd/0 check when setting 
> bash_cv_dev_fd.

I'm not sure which version of bash you're testing against, but I'm certain
that the bash-3.0 configure script includes the following code:

# check for systems like FreeBSD 5 that only provide /dev/fd/[012]
   exec 3<&0
   if test -r /dev/fd/3; then
     bash_cv_dev_fd=standard
   else
     bash_cv_dev_fd=absent
   fi
   exec 3<&-

and it behaves as intended on my FreeBSD 5.2 machine.

Chet

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