# some systems, like old SunOS, have stat on /dev/fd/N and fstat(N, ...) # return different results : ${TMPDIR:=/tmp} trap 'rm -f ${TMPDIR}/pipe' 0 1 2 3 6 15 exec 6>&- echo "t -p /dev/fd/6" test -p /dev/fd/6 echo $? rm -f ${TMPDIR}/pipe 2>/dev/null mkfifo ${TMPDIR}/pipe cat < ${TMPDIR}/pipe & exec 6>&- exec 6>${TMPDIR}/pipe echo "t -p /dev/fd/6" test -p /dev/fd/6 echo $? exec 2>/dev/null # disable process termination message kill $! 2>/dev/null