Very Confused: Named Pipes Problem

Byron Clark byron at theclarkfamily.name
Thu Jul 27 22:58:50 MDT 2006


On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:46:37PM -0600, 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.

Debian (and derivatives) build bash without support for /dev/{tcp,udp}.

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Byron Clark
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