On Apr 3 10:32, Sven Severus wrote: > On Apr 2 17:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I am running Cygwin DLL 1.7.11-1 and the bash command > > > "cat < <(echo 1234)" (not very profound, ok) works fine > > > on my Win7-64 box. > > > > > > Now I installed the same Cygwin release on an older PC > > > running WinXP: the above command does not execute > > > properly and breaks with the error message > > > "bash: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory". > > > >Does /dev/fd exist and is it a symlink to /proc/self/fd? > > It does not exist. > > My Cygwin installation on the old WinXP-PC actually was an > upgrade of an older Cygwin installation (from 2007 or so), > not a new installation from scratch. Maybe it was not a very > wise strategy to try to upgrade such an oldtimer ;-> ... > I will remove the upgraded Cygwin installation and then > install from scratch. I'm confident, this will solve the > problems...
Why the big hammer? Why not start with ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd ? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
