Martijn Dekker <[email protected]> wrote:
> $ dash -c '{ exec 8</dev/null; } 8<&-; : <&8 && echo "oops, still open"'
> Output: "oops, still open"
> Expected output: Bad file descriptor
Well if you deconstruct the redirection it actually says
1) Close fd 8.
2) Open /dev/null and redirect to fd 8.
The second part is done by exec and therefore must remain in the
current shell execution environment. So dash's behaviour is
compliant.
However, POSIX also allows file descriptors greater than 3 to be
closed in this case:
If exec is specified without command or arguments, and any
file descriptors with numbers greater than 2 are opened with
associated redirection statements, it is unspecified whether
those file descriptors remain open when the shell invokes another
utility. Scripts concerned that child shells could misuse open
file descriptors can always close them explicitly, as shown in
one of the following examples.
This allows for the behaviour of the other shells.
Cheers,
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