Re: moving fd affect outer scope

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/18/13 2:55 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 37
> Release Status: release
> 
> Moving a file descriptor for a builtin command or a compound
> command leaves the fd closed afterwards:
> 
> $ bash -c ': <&1-; echo test'
> bash: line 0: echo: write error: Bad file descriptor
> 
> expected output: "test".

Thanks for the report.  This has probably been around for as long as those
redirections have been around -- at least 10 years.  I've attached a patch
to fix it.

Chet

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redir-fd-move.patch
Description: Source code patch