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

Andrew Danforth (andrew@synapse.resnet.jmu.edu)
Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:11:44 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Austin Donnelly wrote:

> 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.

seems to work for me...:

andrew@tentacle:~$ uname -a
Linux tentacle 1.3.62 #6 Sun Feb 11 12:02:43 EST 1996 i586
andrew@tentacle:~$ cat <(date)
Tue Feb 13 13:09:02 EST 1996
andrew@tentacle:~$

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