> That says nothing about what the child process does. Correct, but that is as far as I get with my knowledge :-). I've also a strace with Bash 4.1 patchlevel 9 around this point and that goes as follows:
... clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x2af2938ab9d0) = 2972 close(3) = 0 close(7) = 0 close(9) = 0 close(10) = 0 read(8, "", 4) = 0 fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0 ... -- Henk van de Kamer Netwerkbeheerder armorica.tk http://www.armorica.tk/