Checking the rest of ZSH_CACHE after the killesrch fix, on the principle that
one wrong answer in a hand-written block is rarely the only one. Two more, both
`yes`, both measurable on the running system in a line each.
**zsh_cv_sys_path_dev_fd=/dev/fd.** Neither /dev/fd nor /proc/self/fd exists --
/proc/self does not exist at all. So `<(cmd)` failed at the point of use with
cat: /dev/fd/11: No such file or directory
which reads as a broken command rather than as a feature the system does not
have.
**zsh_cv_sys_fifo=yes.** mkfifo() does not fail here. It *succeeds*, and
produces a character device: mknod() turns S_IFIFO into a T_DEV and keeps the
major/minor, so `ls -l` shows `crw-rw-rw- 438, 0` where a `p` belongs, and
nothing written to it comes back out. Succeeding wrongly is what made `yes`
look defensible.
Both `no` now. `<(cmd)` says "doesn't look like your system supports FIFOs",
which names the missing thing instead of blaming cat, and `$( )` is unaffected.
The two gaps are recorded in docs/architecture/filesystem.md rather than left
implied by a build flag -- named pipes and a path to one's own descriptors are
both real features, and neither exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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