Re: FDs greater than 9 can't be closed

[Chet Ramey]

greg@wooledge.org wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i386
> OS: openbsd3.9
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='openbsd3.9' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-unknown-openbsd3.9' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' 
> -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib  
> -I/usr/local/include -O2 -pipe
> uname output: OpenBSD pegasus 4.0 GENERIC#1 i386
> Machine Type: i386-unknown-openbsd3.9
> 
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 1
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       File descriptors greater than 9 seem to ignore move/close
>       redirections (e.g. 17<&-).  This problem does not occur in
>       earlier versions of bash, so it appears to be a regression.

This was fixed in bash-3.2.

Chet

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