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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
