On Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:43:17, Steven Penny wrote: > Using this file: > > $ cat hello.sh > awk -f /dev/fd/3 3<<eof > BEGIN { > print "hello world" > } > eof > > it runs as expected with Dash: > > $ dash hello.sh > hello world > > However it fails with Bash: > > $ bash hello.sh > awk: fatal: can't open source file `/dev/fd/3' for reading (No such file > or > directory) > > I tried also with Debian and both Dash and Bash work as expected. What is > causing Cygwin Bash to fail here?
File to which symlnk /dev/fd/3 refers has "gone"; different from Linux, where the file is "deleted", but still "available". (note: dash uses a different implementation) I used fd 7 in testing. Below the output on Cygwin ... Observe the difference when executed on Linux. Henri hello.sh: #cat 7<<\EOF 0<&7 # works on both Linux and Cygwin #cat 7<<\EOF 0<&7 /dev/fd/7 # fails on Cygwin #ls 7<<\EOF 0<&7 -l /proc/self/fd /tmp /dev/fd/7 ls 7<<\EOF 0<&7 -lL /proc/self/fd /tmp /dev/fd/7 Hello world! EOF exit # Using: ls 7<<\EOF 0<&7 -l /proc/self/fd /tmp /dev/fd/7 64-@@ bash hello.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 /dev/fd/7 -> /tmp/sh-thd.3PSuc2 /proc/self/fd: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 0 -> /tmp/sh-thd.3PSuc2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 1 -> /dev/pty1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 2 -> /dev/pty1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 3 -> /proc/4972/fd lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 7 -> /tmp/sh-thd.3PSuc2 /tmp: .. 64-@@ dash hello.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 /dev/fd/7 -> pipe:[4294969740] /proc/self/fd: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 0 -> pipe:[4294969740] lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 1 -> /dev/pty1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 2 -> /dev/pty1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 3 -> /proc/3740/fd lrwxrwxrwx 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:37 7 -> pipe:[4294969740] /tmp: .. # Using: ls 7<<\EOF 0<&7 -lL /proc/self/fd /tmp /dev/fd/7 64-@@ bash hello.sh ls: cannot access '/dev/fd/7': No such file or directory /proc/self/fd: ls: cannot access '/proc/self/fd/0': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/proc/self/fd/7': No such file or directory total 0 l????????? ? ? ? ? ? 0 crw--w---- 1 Henri None 136, 1 Dec 4 12:39 1 crw--w---- 1 Henri None 136, 1 Dec 4 12:39 2 dr-xr-xr-x 2 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:39 3 l????????? ? ? ? ? ? 7 /tmp: .. 64-@@ dash hello.sh prw------- 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:40 /dev/fd/7 /proc/self/fd: total 0 prw------- 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:40 0 crw--w---- 1 Henri None 136, 1 Dec 4 12:40 1 crw--w---- 1 Henri None 136, 1 Dec 4 12:40 2 dr-xr-xr-x 2 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:40 3 prw------- 1 Henri None 0 Dec 4 12:40 7 /tmp: .. ===== -- 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