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From: Daniel Mills <danielmills1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Reading from a file by using its FD returns its contents only once
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 12:23:03 -0500
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 8:37 PM mike b <michallinuxstuff@gmail.com> wrote:

> Configuration Information:
> Machine: x86_64
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I../. -I.././include -I.././lib  -Wdate-time
> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/bash-7fckc0/bash-4.4=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -no-pie
> -Wno-parentheses -Wno-format-security
> uname output: Linux debian9 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2
> (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
>
> I am not quite sure if this is a bug, but here's what I find as a bit odd
> behavior:
>
> # modprobe zram num_devices=0
> # exec {add}</sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
> # read -r id <&"$add"; echo "$id"
> 0
> # read -r id <&"$add"; echo "$id" # <- $id ends up empty, no data is read
>
> # read -r id </sys/class/zram-control/hot_add; echo "$id"
> 1
> # read -r id </sys/class/zram-control/hot_add; echo "$id"
> 2
> # readlink -f "/proc/$$/fd/$add"
> /sys/class/zram-control/hot_add
>
> The above sysfs interface is used for creating a zram device by performing
> a read on the hot_add file. The value that should be returned is the id of
> the newly created device. In first instance file is opened by dynamically
> allocating the fd to use "$add" (the fd) across reads instead of
> referencing the file directly. But from the above example you can see that
> $id is assigned an actual value only on first read. On every next one, $id
> would become empty - when using $add, that is. However, when file is read
> in a standard way, by using it directly, everything works as it should.
>
> 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 $REPLY
>
> #
> Playing with something like:
> # zram=/sys/class/zram/control/hot_add
> # c=0; while  ((++c <= 3)); do read -r; echo "${REPLY:-NULL}"; done
> <"$zram"
> 0
> NULL
> NULL
> #
> also gets same results. In contrast to:
> # c=0; while (( ++c <= 3 )); do read -r; echo "out: ${REPLY:-NULL}"; done
> foo
> out: foo
> foo
> out: foo
> foo
> out: foo
> #
> which keeps reading from default stdin (terminal in this case) without any
> hiccups (as expected).
>
> So, considering all the above, any hints on why subsequent reads in these
> scenarios don't get any data from a file would be really appreciated. :)
>
> Same behavior is seen in 4.3.30 and 5.0 versions.
>

Redirections treat all files as streams, it won't seek back to the
beginning once you hit the end of the file. You would need to close and
re-open it