On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:03:41 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I thought of that too, but notice the parens "()" around that /bin/sleep; 
>> that creates and extra level of forked processes and its harder to get that 
>> pid. There probably is a way to traverse the hierarchy but I'll keep it as 
>> is for now.
>
> Ah right. Begs the question why we need to use bash to execute sleep? Could 
> it be shell script instead of a binary?

I think that's the author's prerogative; the test was written in 2010
to test conditions related to deeply inherited file descriptors.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5239

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