Bash Process Substitution
Lev S Bishop
lev.bishop@yale.edu
Thu Apr 14 13:23:00 GMT 2005
Corina wrote:
> In the Linux kernel there's some magic
> going on which we can't reproduce in Cygwin so far. Trying to open
> an existing pipe for writing or reading opens apparently exactly the
> right end of the pipe under Linux. On Windows, you only get the exact
> end of the pipe which is already available to the current process. That's
> the read side of the pipe, AFAICS, and that doesn't allow writing. This
> explains the "Permission denied".
Interesting. Looking in function process_substitute in subst.c, I can see
that bash tries to swap ends of the pipe depending on whether its a >(cmd)
or a <(cmd) substitution.
Lev
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