Very Confused: Named Pipes Problem

Dave Smith dave at thesmithfam.org
Fri Jul 28 07:32:59 MDT 2006


Andrew McNabb wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:44:19PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
>> By the way, I assume that Bash only supports /dev/tcp on machines with
>> kernel support for it.  Is that correct?  If so, I'm guessing other
>> unices aren't going to support it any time soon.
>>
>
> I read the post more carefully. :)  D'oh.  So it's Bash-specific, but I
> guess it's only in new versions of Bash or something.

It's not new -- I use it under RHEL3. It just has to be built into bash 
at compile time.

--Dave



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