From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12452 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2012 08:35:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 7971 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Apr 2012 08:35:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:34:58 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9ABDA2C006E; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:34:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:35:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Process Substitution / Named Pipes in cygwin 1.7.11-1 Message-ID: <20120403083455.GP8014@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F7AB583.9050709@hima.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F7AB583.9050709@hima.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 On Apr 3 10:32, Sven Severus wrote: > On Apr 2 17:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I am running Cygwin DLL 1.7.11-1 and the bash command > > > "cat < <(echo 1234)" (not very profound, ok) works fine > > > on my Win7-64 box. > > > > > > Now I installed the same Cygwin release on an older PC > > > running WinXP: the above command does not execute > > > properly and breaks with the error message > > > "bash: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory". > > > >Does /dev/fd exist and is it a symlink to /proc/self/fd? > > It does not exist. > > My Cygwin installation on the old WinXP-PC actually was an > upgrade of an older Cygwin installation (from 2007 or so), > not a new installation from scratch. Maybe it was not a very > wise strategy to try to upgrade such an oldtimer ;-> ... > I will remove the upgraded Cygwin installation and then > install from scratch. I'm confident, this will solve the > problems... Why the big hammer? Why not start with ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd ? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple