Re: Bad file descriptor with pipeline

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/11/16 5:39 PM, Hédy GIRAUDEAU wrote:
> Hi,
> If i use : `strace bash -c "echo qsd | cat" 2>&1 | grep "close"`
> I get systematically :
> 
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(4)                                = 0
> close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> close(3)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> 
> 
> I don't know if it's a bug or not. This error happens everytime a
> pipeline is used.

It's not a bug, it's bash making sure pipe file descriptors are closed.

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