On Aug 20, 2016 9:32 PM, "Dmitry Goncharov" <dgoncha...@users.sf.net> wrote: > With this new contract how can the user write portable bash code which tests if a fd refers to a pipe?
The test command seems to have the behavior you expect. $ uname SunOS $ mkfifo /tmp/pipe $ cat < /tmp/pipe & [1] 25376 $ exec 6>/tmp/pipe $ test -p /dev/fd/6 && echo pipe $ /usr/bin/test -p /dev/fd/6 && echo pipe pipe
