Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/7/19 4:06 PM, L A Walsh wrote:

>> Just like that one time L. Walsh tried to write a bash boot script that
>> used <() to populate an array, and it failed because she was running
>> it too early in the boot sequence, and /dev/fd/ wasn't available yet
>>   
> 
> ---
>     /dev/fd was available, and so was /proc that it symlinked to.
> What wasn't available was "/tmp" being mounted as a writeable
> file system. I.e. -- exactly the case we are talking about being
> a problem *AGAIN*.

He's probably referring to

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-03/msg00181.html

where you wanted to use process substitution before /dev/fd was mounted.

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