On 7/23/19 11:20 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:15, Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com > <mailto:s...@liddicott.com>> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:13, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu > <mailto:chet.ra...@case.edu>> wrote: > > On 7/23/19 11:11 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: > > > The report concerns the different behaviour with internal and > external > > operations. > > Right. The close-on-exec is deliberate. That's how it was intended. > > > 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.
You mean case 2 in your original post? That's because redirections are performed in the child process forked to run /bin/echo, so the fd never exists in the parent process. I thought you were talking about case 1, with the builtin echo. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/