Re: eval doesn't close file descriptor?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/13/13 12:44 PM, Matei David wrote:
> Another thing I tried was to open a fd with <() and use it later in a shell
> function. Surprisingly, the fd disappears (is closed) if the shell executes
> something unrelated in subshell:

This was reported a while back

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-08/msg00003.html

and fixed soon after.  The fix has been in the devel branch of the savannah
git tree ever since.

Chet

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