Re: fd leak with {fd}>

[Dennis Williamson]

On Nov 26, 2012 2:48 PM, "Chet Ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> On 11/26/12 12:11 PM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
>
> > I explained how in the lines of my response that you deleted.
> >
> > It is potentially useless because:
> >
> > 1. it is non-obvious, most users will not expect this behaviour (unless
> > already initiated into the secret) and so will not try to get that
benefit.
>
> OK, so there's a need for documentation on how it differs from anonymous
> or, in certain circumstances, explicitly numbered redirections.
>
> > 2. it is an unexpected side effect and will do something which is not
> > expected, and be widely and "wrongly" labelled as buggy or unreliable by
> > misunderstanding users and therefore damage the bash reputation.
>
> Hmmm...again, it's a new feature which shares some things with the old but
> has its own behavior.  Think of it as something closer to open/fcntl than
> the historical redirections.  The differences can be made more apparent
> with better documentation.  Certainly nobody has used it by accident
> before.
>
> > 3. there already exists simple and explicit way to get the supposed
benefit
> > using the existing mechanism "exec"
>
> Not quite.  You still have to pick the file descriptor you want to use
with
> `exec'.  But you are not being forced to use it -- by all means, if you
> think it's not what you need or want, feel free to avoid it and encourage
> your friends to do the same.  There have been unsuccessful new features --
> the case-modifying expansions are one example of a swing and miss.
>
> Chet
>

Case modification in Bash is a highly viewed and highly upvoted question on
Stack Overflow.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2265268/26428

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>