Re: leaks fd for internal functions but not external command

[Sam Liddicott]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:15, Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:13, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
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>> On 7/23/19 11:11 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
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>> > The report concerns the different behaviour with internal and external
>> > operations.
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>> Right. The close-on-exec is deliberate. That's how it was intended.
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> Doesn't close-on-exec usually takes effect only on the process that does
> the exec?
> i.e. the fork that does the exec, not the parent process?
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It got closed in the parent. The lsof is running for the parent, the main
process. /bin/echo has quit before the lsof runs.