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Re: Coprocess FD not available when duplicated to FD other than 1 or 2


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Coprocess FD not available when duplicated to FD other than 1 or 2
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:41:23 -0400
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On 10/19/16 8:24 AM, lolilolicon wrote:
> The following correctly prints "fd=2":
> 
>     coproc p { head -1; }
>     2>&${p[1]} bash -c 'echo fd=2 >&2'
>     cat <&${p[0]}
> 
> Change 2 to 3, throws error: "bash: 3: Bad file descriptor":
> 
>     coproc p { head -1; }
>     3>&${p[1]} bash -c 'echo fd=3 >&3'
>     cat <&${p[0]}
> 
> I'm not very familiar with redirection, so I may have overlooked
> something obvious...
> 
> What am I missing?

File descriptors greater than 2 are set to close-on-exec in child
processes.


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