Re: Bash process substitution

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jan 22 18:46, Dave wrote:
> Is process substitution expected to work in 1.7.1?
> 
> Here's what I tried:
> 
> kilroyd@MINIME ~
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 MINIME 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin
> 
> kilroyd@MINIME ~
> $ echo LOG:bananas | tee file.txt
> LOG:bananas
> 
> kilroyd@MINIME ~
> $ cat file.txt
> LOG:bananas
> 
> kilroyd@MINIME ~
> $ echo LOG:bananas | tee >(grep "^LOG:" > file.txt)
> LOG:bananas
> tee: /dev/fd/63: Bad file descriptor

I'm not quite sure how this command works under the hood, but it's
possible that this can't work in Cygwin due to a restriction in
Windows.  In contrast to Unix, you can't call open(pipe_fd, O_RDONLY)
if pipe_fd is the write side of a pipe and vice versa.  If bash's
process substitution relies on that, it's simply not possible.
Dunno if there is a way to implement this using some hackery, of course...


Corinna

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