On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> See: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-11/msg00040.html[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-11/msg00040.html] > Pierre > PS: I'm with you ;) Thanks for the link, I didn't find it in my earlier searches. Well, that's disappointing. So there is no technical reason for this behavior other than copying the behavior of ksh. BTW zsh does the right thing and in the following scenario: ls -lh /proc/self/fd {fd}>/dev/null and it closes the file descriptor after the command has completed.