On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
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>> On 11/23/12 2:04 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote:
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>> > It seems rather counter intuitive that the fd is not closed after
>> leaving
>> > the block.
>> > With the normal redirection the fd is only available inside the block
>> >
>> > $ { : ;} 3>&1;echo bar >&3
>> > -bash: 3: Bad file descriptor
>> >
>> > if 3 is closed why should I expect {fd} to be still open?
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>> Because that's part of the reason to have {x}: so the user can handle the
>> disposition of the file descriptor himself.
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> I don't see any difference between 3> and {x}> except that the later free
> me from the hassle of avoid conflicting fd
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It seems that ksh93 behaves just like bash in this regard....
Well, as I don't use it I don't really care, but I vote for this as a bug
as I fail to see the benefit of this behavior as i find it useless and not
consistent with the normal redirection.
