Zsh Mailing List Archive
Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author

Q about <(...)



bor@itsrm2% sudo pkgadd -d <(zcat SIN4C306+.pkg.Z)


Installation in progress.  Do not remove the installation media.

pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
    - open of </dev/fd/11> failed, errno=9

Manual states, that <(...) creates a FIFO and passes it's name as
argument ... obviously, it is not the case - it is simply passing opened
file descriptor. As all files are closed by sudo this fails.

FIFO in this case would be really nice ... (yes, I can use =(...) but
sometimes I get patches of size 50-70MB and I want to avoid
uncomplressing it :-)

-andrej

Have a nice DOS!
B >>



Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author