Re: bash-source closes file descriptor before reading from it on Darwin

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/17/13 8:47 PM, Andrew de Andrade wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 45
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> When using source with process substitution, where the command
>  writes to stdout, source closes the file descriptor created by
> the process substitution before reading from it.
> 
> AFAIK this only occurs on Darwin. This impacts bash-completion
> used by npm and node-tabtab.
>  https://github.com/isaacs/npm/blob/master/lib/completion.js#L163
> 
> Repeat-By:
> Create a script or executable that writes another script to
> stdout. Execute that command like so...
>  source <(my_command)
> ... then check if the script written to stdout was actually
> sourced.

Can you give me something that will allow me to reproduce the problem
more easily?  I can't reproduce it with something like this:

foo()
{
        echo "bar()"$'\n'"{ echo in bar;"$'\n'"}"
        echo echo one
        echo echo two
        echo echo three
        echo echo inside
        echo type bar
        echo bar
}

source <(foo)
echo outside
type bar
echo $?

Does it take a script of a certain size to trigger the problem?  If the
problem is as you describe it should not work anywhere.

I happen to be using exactly the same release of MacOS X and kernel version
you are.

Chet

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