Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Design question(s), re: why use of tmp-files or named-pipes(/dev/fd/N) instead of plain pipes? Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:27:11 -0400 Lines: 11 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <56218DA5.8030501@tlinx.org> <5622CDC8.2030102@case.edu> <5622EB23.6020700@tlinx.org> <20151019122800.GS27325@eeg.ccf.org> <56254945.6020606@tlinx.org> <20151019154705253009402@bob.proulx.com> <56285092.2020701@tlinx.org> <20151023154221971048598@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1445862467 1072 208.118.235.17 (26 Oct 2015 12:27:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151023154221971048598@bob.proulx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11764 On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 04:01:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > The /proc/self/fd/ directory is a kernel construct. It does not have > normal file system semantics. > And really what would be a sane purpose in being able to remove files > from it? What would that do? Would that make any sense at all? I > think it wouldn't make any sense. Well, it *could* conceivably act like close(). But that's a bit off topic here.