Re: About problems with named pipes

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Thomas Schmitt (HE12025-11-10):
> I did not see an insult but only some backtalk.

Maybe you missed the cultural shift, but alas “Karen” has become an
insult.

> > Either you doctored the output
> Are you telling me that this accusation is not meant as insult ?

Of course it is not. It is very frequent to doctor a command output when
posting her to hide irrelevant details or make it fit in the width of a
mail.

> If you use a file object that was freshly made by mkfifo(1) as command in
> a pipe, what complaint from bash do you get ?

I get “command not found”, of course. My shell does not try to execute
random files or pseudo-files in the current directory.

>   -bash: /home/thomas/MyFifo: Permission denied

I would like to point that “/home/thomas/MyFifo” is not the same thing
as “MyFifo:”, so it seems you DID doctor the output.

Furthermore, your configuration is indeed dangerously broken. Possibly a
less dangerously than I suspected, but still broken.

Your shell has no business trying to execute random files lying around
in your home directory.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George