Re: leaks fd for internal functions but not external command

From	Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: leaks fd for internal functions but not external command
Date	2019-07-23 16:20 +0100
Message-ID	<mailman.2080.1563895287.2688.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <5c34ecd5-c8b2-7000-46bc-1bbe3f71f163@case.edu> <CAOj-5WCFbUoU1x2aUvidT1opUbGeG2jFSaM__ch=SUAfzQbQ9w@mail.gmail.com> <78679ee9-fdaf-5180-d32f-81d92b936538@case.edu> <CAOj-5WBei5KMar7c967=jSwZRsW-Rz-0iL20TQMeuQoz61rfkw@mail.gmail.com> <CAOj-5WA_URW5b7a2EU+rR=T_wbTDEpOM_PSo9yNyU-Dqj+cWaA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:15, Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:13, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
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>> On 7/23/19 11:11 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
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>> > The report concerns the different behaviour with internal and external
>> > operations.
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>> Right. The close-on-exec is deliberate. That's how it was intended.
>>
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> Doesn't close-on-exec usually takes effect only on the process that does
> the exec?
> i.e. the fork that does the exec, not the parent process?
>

It got closed in the parent. The lsof is running for the parent, the main
process. /bin/echo has quit before the lsof runs.

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Re: leaks fd for internal functions but not external command Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com> - 2019-07-23 16:20 +0100

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