> > > when i strace bash, i see both files being opened, set to stdout, and
> > > then cat executed, but only in the first file (src/assembler.S) does
> > > there appear to be any data waiting for cat on stdin. the second file's
> > > cat reads stdin and gets back 0 bytes.
> > >
> > > trying to debug the bash source itself is a bit beyond me though ...
> >
> > You might have to. I can't reproduce this on Mac OS X, Ubuntu, or RHEL.
>
> the implied question was, where are the interesting points in the source tree
> i should be looking (i.e. setting breakpoints and checking state) ?
All the interesting stuff happens in redir.c:do_redirection_internal(). I
don't really know where to tell you to go from there; I don't really have
any idea yet about what might be happening.
Chet
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