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--- Begin Message ---
Package: parallel
Version: 20130922-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
It seems that 'parallel' will (always?) automatically close all file
descriptors in the range 3 to 61 before starting the child process.
For example:
$ exec 5</etc/passwd
$ ls -l /dev/fd/
total 0
lrwx------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 0 -> /dev/pts/2
lrwx------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 1 -> /dev/pts/2
lrwx------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 2 -> /dev/pts/2
lr-x------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 3 -> /proc/19896/fd
lr-x------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 5 -> /etc/passwd
$ parallel ls -l <<</dev/fd/
total 0
lr-x------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 0 -> pipe:[222723]
lrwx------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 1 -> /tmp/L6a2EkkAKD.par
(deleted)
lrwx------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 2 -> /tmp/AEzA3WKNXP.par
(deleted)
lr-x------ 1 benjamin benjamin 64 Feb 26 19:42 3 -> /proc/19925/fd
This does not seem like a *useful* feature to me, and is in fact
making my life a bit difficult at the moment. The only clue in the
source is the comment that "/dev/fd/62 and above are used by bash for
<(cmd)", but there's no explanation given as to why *those* file
descriptors should be treated differently from file descriptors opened
in other ways. Moreover I don't see any mention of this in the
documentation.
Is there a reason for this behavior?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages parallel depends on:
ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u3
ii perl-modules 5.20.2-3+deb8u3
parallel recommends no packages.
parallel suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
This bug has been fixed in the current version (20161222-1) in stretch
and unstable. It was fixed upstream some time ago.
--- End Message ---
