Re: [gentoo-dev] multiprocessing.eclass: doing parallel work in bash

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 02 June 2012 16:39:16 Zac Medico wrote:
> On 06/02/2012 12:54 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 			if [[ ! -L /dev/fd/${fd} ]] ; then
> > 				eval "exec ${fd}${redir}'${file}'" && break
> > 			fi
>
> I launched up a GhostBSD livedvd to see what /dev/fd/ looks like on
> FreeBSD, and it seems to contain plain character devices instead of
> symlinks to character devices:

i didn't want to use [ -e ] because of broken links, but it seems that Linux 
has diff semantics with /proc and broken symlinks.  `test -e` will return true.
-mike