Problems with command line scratch files in zsh
Mike Meyer
mwm at mired.org
Sun Jun 12 23:55:03 GMT 2005
In <20050613000119.K19998 at maren.thelosingend.net>, Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein-freebsd-questions at theloosingend.net> typed:
>
> * Mike Meyer wrote [2005-06-12 03:31 -0500]
> > > guru% wc <(cat /etc/motd)
> > > wc: /dev/fd/11: open: No such file or directory
>
> Did you mount the fdescfs filesystem? I have this in my /etc/fstab:
>
> fdesc /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0
That indeed was the problem. Such wasn't required for 4.X. I couldn't
find anything about this searching the FreeBSD web site, or checking
/usr/src/UPDATING. Maybe there's somewhere else I should have looked?
If not, this change should be mentioned in one of those places.
thanks,
<mike
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