From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA17400 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:20:33 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA12579; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:59:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <960920160213.ZM7718@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 16:02:13 -0700 Reply-To: schaefer@nbn.com X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Process substitution and shell functions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"hxPO82.0.T43.M7oGo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2153 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu I can't find anything about this in zsh-3.0.0/etc/FAQ or zsh-3.0.0/etc/BUGS so I'm assuming it's fairly new. zsh% function foo { echo $1 ; cat $1 } zsh% foo =(echo hello world) /tmp/zsha24295 cat: /tmp/zsha24295: No such file or directory The temp file for the process substitution seems to be getting removed a bit too aggressively. It should stay around at least until the shell function finishes, should it not? -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern New male in /home/schaefer: >N 2 Justin William Schaefer Sat May 11 03:43 53/4040 "Happy Birthday"