The second beta release of bash-4.4 is now available with the URL
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-beta2.tar.gz
and via git from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/?h=bash-4.4-testing
This tar file includes the formatted documentation (you should be able to
generate updated versions
Hi Chet, thanks for the reply!
These semantic differences do exist with the Linux implementation of
/dev/fd, but not with other implementations. The BSD and Mac OS X
versions, for instance, behave more or less as if they duplicate the
file descriptor.
Yes, *BSDs have dup semantics for opening
On 7/11/16 6:02 PM, Carl Edquist wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> The docs say:
>
> Bash handles several filenames specially when they are
> used in redirections, as described in the following table:
>
> /d
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='unknown'
-DLOCALEDIR='/scratch/edqui
