Re: Bug or feature? No EOF on /proc/xxx/fd/x

Snow Cat (snowcat@math.csufresno.edu)
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:06:47 -0800 (PST)

Dale Scheetz once wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Austin Donnelly wrote:
>
> <stuff deleted>
> >
> > As you say, an even easier was to see the bug in action is:
> >
> > $ cat <(date)
> >
> > which should print the current date, but doesn't in newer
> > kernels.
>
> I'm running a 1.3.57 kernel and this command does print the date.
> However, the prompt fails to return untill a ^C, so it isn't quite right
> either.
>

I wonder if it's a problem with bash. zsh still prints date and exits.

-- 
     Snow ^oo^ Cat <snowcat@math.CSUFresno.EDU>
      _  ->  <-    aka Oleg Kibirev <oleg@math.CSUFresno.EDU>
  ___(_)  _ _)_    
 /            _)   finger oleg@math.math.CSUFresno.EDU for PGP public key
 \_.-._
       |___/	Purr!