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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Q about <(...)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:11:09 +0400
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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 >>

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