On 5/24/16 12:09 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> It's not that Posix `allows' a subshell, it requires a subshell
>> environment:
>
> Hm sorry I thought it was "may". This is kind of easy to confuse with
> all the other unspecified things about side-
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> It's not that Posix `allows' a subshell, it requires a subshell
> environment:
Hm sorry I thought it was "may". This is kind of easy to confuse with
all the other unspecified things about side-effects from assignments
affecting subsequent assi
On 5/24/16 1:41 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
>> You don't precede it with an `exec', so it doesn't affect the current
>> shell. So-called `null' commands with redirections are executed in
>> subshells. This is where you need the `exec'.
>
> I know POSIX allows for a subshell but don't know what the p
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 5/21/16 5:16 PM, adonis papaderos wrote:
>
>> Bash Version: 4.3
>> Patch Level: 42
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>> When using redirections preceded by a word on builtins
>> 'i.e. : {varname}<&1'
>> the red
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:48:47PM +0300, adonis papaderos wrote:
> > > When using redirections preceded by a word on builtins
> > > 'i.e. : {varname}<&1'
> > > the redirection persists to the current shell.
That surprises me, but if Chet says it's not a bug, then so be it.
Si
I had read this before sending this message. The discussion you mention
concerns leaking named redirections from function calls. This is not what I
was trying to say. I was talking about the difference in behaviour between
the creation and the destructions of the fd. There is also the difference
in
On 5/21/16 5:16 PM, adonis papaderos wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> When using redirections preceded by a word on builtins
> 'i.e. : {varname}<&1'
> the redirection persists to the current shell.
This is by design, an
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