On 12/12/13 8:02 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:53:32AM +0100, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: >> Yuri: I have verified that under linux 3.2.0, bash-4.2.25, nothing of >> the sort takes place. tee gets /dev/fd/${somefd}, why it is not >> supported in bsd kernel i have no idea, but I thought it was. > > On OpenBSD, at least, this is true. I haven't tried FreeBSD.
Unless things have gotten better on FreeBSD, it isn't. The issue with FreeBSD is that is has historically only provided /dev/fd/[012], and that isn't general enough for bash's use. FIFOs are definitely a second choice here. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/