Hello
I run into this problem on CentOS 5.7 (Final), that if I try to source a FIFO in bash, my command will be silently ignored and nothing from the FIFO is interpreted. Here is a simple example:
[root@appserver2 ~]# mkfifo /tmp/myfifo [root@appserver2 ~]# echo ls -l >/tmp/myfifo & [2] 23771 [root@appserver2 ~]# source /tmp/myfifo # no `ls´ output here... [root@appserver2 ~]# rm /tmp/myfifo rm: remove fifo `/tmp/myfifo'? y [2]+ Exit 1 echo ls -l > /tmp/myfifo [root@appserver2 ~]#
CentOS 5.7 comes with 'GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)'. I can see from posting in the bash group that the same bash 3.2 (and older) on a different distribution can source the FIFO as expected: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/17652 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/17649/focus=17652
Can this be a CentOS/packaging issue ?
Thank you, Timothy Madden