Re: File descriptor leak in nested functions

[Dennis Williamson]

For those who might be interested, here's a much simpler function that
exhibits the same kind of leak and doesn't involve nested functions.

fd_leaker() { while :; do read a < <(pwd); c=(/proc/$$/fd/*);
c=${#c[@]}; echo $c; done; }

For some reason, adding "(exit 0); " right before the "done" seems to
limit the creation of extra file descriptors.

The problem seems to be related to read and subshells.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

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> Thanks for the report.  This will be fixed in the next release of bash.
>
> Chet
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