security/rkhunter 1.4.2 and fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Chris Nehren <
cnehren+freebsd-stable at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 13:06:57 +0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> > shells/bash more or less requires fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd, in case
> > someone wondered.
>
> What kinds of things fail when this isn't the case?  I've not
> heard of or seen any issues with shells/bash and I don't have
> fdescfs mounted.
>

<(command) / >(command) syntax requires it on many platforms. Although I'm
told this is actually something of a configure (or configuration) bug and
it may not actually be needed in all cases; the bash port's notes do
specify that it is needed though.

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