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Re: process substitution temp files in cygwin/4.3.9



2008/12/11 Anthony Heading <ajrh@xxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> This is with zsh as packaged by cygwin.
>
> ~=> zsh --version
> zsh 4.3.9 (i686-pc-cygwin)
> ~=> x==(echo hello); ls -l $x
> ls: cannot access /tmp/zshLYRlmE: No such file or directory
>
> The alternative earlier package is 4.3.4, which is fine
>
> ~=> zsh --version
> zsh 4.3.4 (i686-pc-cygwin)
> ~=> x==(echo hello); ls -l $x
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ajrh None 6 Dec 11 06:08 /tmp/zsh7IfKiD

This is as designed, after a subcommand or whatever it is called is
finished, the temp file is deleted. There's really no actual
difference between a ; and pressing enter. It used to work sometimes
in previous versions due to a bug, but it sometimes also crashed.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson



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