Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin, stdout, stderr} symlinks

2023-03-28 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Brian, On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2022-02-21 06:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution > > (Bash's > > very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature). > > > > For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossible)

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin, stdout, stderr} symlinks

2023-03-28 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Corinna, On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 28 10:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 25 16:46, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On Feb 21 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > If there is appetite for it, I wonde

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin, stdout, stderr} symlinks

2022-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 28 10:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 25 16:46, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Feb 21 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > If there is appetite for it, I wonder whether we should do something > > > > similar > > > > for `/dev/s

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin, stdout, stderr} symlinks

2022-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 16:46, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Feb 21 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution > > > (Bash's > > > very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature). > > >

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} symlinks

2022-02-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2022-02-21 06:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution (Bash's very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature). For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossible) to generate these symbolic links in all circumstances where Git for Wind

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin, stdout, stderr} symlinks

2022-02-25 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Corinna, On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 21 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution > > (Bash's > > very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature). > > > > For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossibl

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} symlinks

2022-02-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Johannes, On Feb 21 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution (Bash's > very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature). > > For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossible) to generate these > symbolic links in all circumstances

[PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} symlinks

2022-02-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution (Bash's very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature). For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossible) to generate these symbolic links in all circumstances where Git for Windows wants to use its close fork of the Cygwin runt