On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:15, Sam Liddicott <s...@liddicott.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 16:13, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > >> On 7/23/19 11:11 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote: >> >> > The report concerns the different behaviour with internal and external >> > operations. >> >> Right. The close-on-exec is deliberate. That's how it was intended. >> > > Doesn't close-on-exec usually takes effect only on the process that does > the exec? > i.e. the fork that does the exec, not the parent process? > It got closed in the parent. The lsof is running for the parent, the main process. /bin/echo has quit before the lsof runs.