On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:28 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > > On 4/9/19 10:10 AM, konsolebox wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:19 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> 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. > > > > @Chet, Isn't bash supposed to use named pipes alternatively, and > > dynamically? > > No. It's a build-time decision, and /dev/fd is preferred.
Why not make it load-time at least? Not that I really care, since I know when I can use process substitution in my scripts and when not. -- konsolebox
