Re: /bin/sh redirection in 'while' loop not closed afterwards?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 02:28:15PM +0200, Anthony Mallet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I observe this strange behaviour with /bin/sh on NetBSD-5.1 and current. It
> seems that the redirection for the 'while' loop (fd 9 below) is not closed 
> once
> the loop finishes:

At a guess the fd for redirection usually get opened, duped above 10, then
duped to the required number very late on (in the child).

The redirect on a while loop (or any other builtin) forces a subshell
so something is probably suspect in that subshell path.

        David

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