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From: Tadeus Prastowo <tadeus.prastowo@unitn.it>
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Subject: Re: Reading from a file by using its FD returns its contents only once
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:40:10 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 2:37 AM mike b <michallinuxstuff@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> The above is just an example. Doing reads on any other regular file like
> this yields same behavior:
> # echo bla >./t
> # exec 10<./t
> # read -r <&10
> # echo $REPLY
> bla
> # read -r <&10
> # echo $REPLY

That's correct behavior because the second `read -r' already hits an
EOF, isn't that?

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Tadeus