diff --git a/docs/architecture/filesystem.md b/docs/architecture/filesystem.md
index 189a7ef..b714ecf 100644
--- a/docs/architecture/filesystem.md
+++ b/docs/architecture/filesystem.md
@@ -269,6 +269,16 @@ both need the `..` fixup and the ancestor-loop check that are not written.
   a deadlock rather than a wrong answer.
 - **`rename()` does not move directories**, and will not replace one. `EISDIR`
   either way.
+- **No named pipes.** `mkfifo()` does not fail — it *succeeds* and produces a
+  character device, because `mknod()` turns `S_IFIFO` into a `T_DEV` and keeps
+  the major/minor. `ls -l` shows `crw-rw-rw- 438, 0` where a `p` belongs, and
+  nothing written to it comes back out. Succeeding wrongly is worse than
+  refusing: the zsh port was configured with `zsh_cv_sys_fifo=yes` on the
+  strength of it, and process substitution failed at the point of use rather
+  than being reported as unavailable.
+- **No `/dev/fd`, and no `/proc/self`.** A process cannot reach its own open
+  descriptors by path. `<(cmd)` needs one or the other — zsh now knows it has
+  neither and says so.
 - **No `AF_UNIX` socket inodes.** Socket names live in a table in
   `kernel/net/unix.c`, so `bind()` creates nothing that can be `stat()`ed or
   `unlink()`ed.
diff --git a/docs/history/kernel.md b/docs/history/kernel.md
index 0b51c5d..f1c8967 100644
--- a/docs/history/kernel.md
+++ b/docs/history/kernel.md
@@ -505,6 +505,25 @@ The lesson is narrow and worth stating: when a probe that reproduces a
 program's exact syscall sequence behaves correctly and the program does not,
 stop looking under the syscalls and start looking at the build.
 
+#### Two more in the same block
+
+Checking the rest of `ZSH_CACHE` after fixing that one found two more answers
+claiming capabilities SchOS does not have, both `yes`, both measurable on the
+running system in one line each:
+
+- `zsh_cv_sys_path_dev_fd=/dev/fd` — neither `/dev/fd` nor `/proc/self/fd`
+  exists. `<(cmd)` therefore failed at the point of use with `cat:
+  /dev/fd/11: No such file or directory`, which reads as a broken command
+  rather than an unimplemented feature.
+- `zsh_cv_sys_fifo=yes` — `mkfifo()` does not fail, it *succeeds* and produces
+  a character device: `mknod()` turns `S_IFIFO` into a `T_DEV`, so `ls -l`
+  shows `crw-rw-rw- 438, 0` and nothing written comes back out.
+
+Both are `no` now, and `<(cmd)` says *"doesn't look like your system supports
+FIFOs"* — which names the missing feature instead of blaming `cat`. The gaps
+themselves are recorded in
+[../architecture/filesystem.md](../architecture/filesystem.md).
+
 ---
 
 This was left here deliberately rather than continuing to iterate blind:
diff --git a/ports/zsh/Makefile b/ports/zsh/Makefile
index 713eddc..56687b9 100644
--- a/ports/zsh/Makefile
+++ b/ports/zsh/Makefile
@@ -113,6 +113,25 @@ ZSH_LIBS     := -lncursesw $(MUSL)/lib/libc.a $(LIBGCC) $(MUSL)/lib/libc.a \
 #
 # The cruel part: autoconf's own cross-compilation default for this one is
 # `yes`. Leaving the line out entirely would have been correct.
+#
+# Two more in this block claimed capabilities SchOS does not have, found by
+# checking the rest after the one above. Both were `yes`, and both are facts
+# that can simply be measured on the running system:
+#
+#   zsh_cv_sys_path_dev_fd   /dev/fd and /proc/self/fd do not exist. Telling
+#                            zsh otherwise made `<(cmd)` fail at the point of
+#                            use with `cat: /dev/fd/11: No such file or
+#                            directory`, which reads as a broken command
+#                            rather than an unimplemented feature.
+#
+#   zsh_cv_sys_fifo          mkfifo() "succeeds" and produces a *character
+#                            device*: the kernel's mknod turns S_IFIFO into a
+#                            T_DEV, so `ls -l` shows `crw-rw-rw- 438, 0`, and
+#                            nothing written to it comes back out. Named pipes
+#                            are not implemented.
+#
+# With both `no`, zsh knows it cannot do process substitution and says so,
+# which is the honest state until FIFOs exist.
 ZSH_CACHE := \
   zsh_cv_shared_environ=yes \
   zsh_cv_shared_tgetent=no \
@@ -120,8 +139,8 @@ ZSH_CACHE := \
   zsh_cv_sys_nis=no \
   zsh_cv_sys_nss=no \
   zsh_cv_func_realpath_accepts_null=yes \
-  zsh_cv_sys_path_dev_fd=/dev/fd \
-  zsh_cv_sys_fifo=yes \
+  zsh_cv_sys_path_dev_fd=no \
+  zsh_cv_sys_fifo=no \
   zsh_cv_sys_killesrch=yes \
   zsh_cv_sys_signal_handler=void \
   zsh_cv_prog_tcsetpgrp=yes \