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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inconsistency with handling of symlinked ttys in background
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:53:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110315095300.GA10726@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD91FFB.40105@draigBrady.com>

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:18:35AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I noticed a bug with dash-0.5.6-2.fc11.i586
> in that it doesn't redirect from symlinked ttys
> correctly for background processes.
> 
> $ dash -c "tty < /dev/stdin&"
> $ dash -c "tty < /dev/stdin"
> /dev/pts/3
> $ bash -c "tty < /dev/stdin&"
> /dev/pts/3
> $ dash -c "tty < $(readlink -f /dev/stdin)&"
> /dev/pts/3

It's completely expected as we close stdin for backgrounded
commands.

Try:

bash -c '{ :; tty < /dev/stdin; }&'

Now who is inconsistent? :)

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 10:18 inconsistency with handling of symlinked ttys in background Pádraig Brady
2011-03-15  9:53 ` Herbert Xu [this message]

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