On 7/23/19 11:15 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:13, Chet Ramey <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> On 7/23/19 11:11 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
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> > The report concerns the different behaviour with internal and external
> > operations.
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> Right. The close-on-exec is deliberate. That's how it was intended.
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> 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?
Right. Isn't that what's happening? The fd got closed in the /bin/echo
process but not in the parent?
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