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Subject: Re: [ast-users] Passing a file descriptor to a child process?
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> ksh93 uses O_CLOEXEC to avoid passing all its file descriptors to a
> child process. That is IMO a good thing (clean!).
> 
> However, is there a way to pass a file descriptor to a child process?
> 
> Tina
> -- 
> Tina Harriott  - Women in Mathematics
> Contact: [email protected]
> 

Yes, run
        any_command {fd}< foobar

to open foobar for reading and pass it to an_command.
        exec {fd}< foobar
will open it only in the shell environment

David Korn
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