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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Clemens Buchacher" <drizzd@aon.at>,
	"Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5570: forward git-daemon messages in a different way
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:58:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8FB779.60004@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120419060326.GA13982@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 4/19/2012 8:03, schrieb Jeff King:
> mkfifo fd
> yes >fd &
> pid=$!
> {
>         read line
>         echo $line
>         cat <fd &
> } <fd
> sleep 1
> kill $pid
> wait $pid
> rm -f fd
...
> Hmm. Yeah, if you strace the cat, it gets an immediate EOF. And even
> weirder, I notice this in the strace output:
> 
>   clone(...)
>   close(0)                                = 0
>   open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY)             = 0
>   ...
>   execve("/bin/cat", ["cat"], [/* 50 vars */]) = 0
> 
> What? The shell is literally redirecting the cat process's stdin from
> /dev/null. I'm totally confused.

You don't have to be; it's mandated by POSIX:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_03_02

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-19  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-14  8:44 [PATCH] t5570: forward git-daemon messages in a different way Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-14 12:13 ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-14 12:21   ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-16 15:43     ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-16 17:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 21:22         ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-16 22:06           ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-17 15:43             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-16 17:42       ` Jeff King
2012-04-16 22:44         ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-19  6:03           ` Jeff King
2012-04-19  6:58             ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-04-26 13:01               ` Jeff King
2012-04-26 18:16                 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-04-26 19:55                   ` Clemens Buchacher
2012-04-26 21:00                     ` [PATCH] t5570: fix forwarding of git-daemon messages via cat Johannes Sixt
2012-04-26 21:10                       ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-04-27  7:59                       ` Jeff King
2012-04-27 15:02                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-27  7:55                   ` [PATCH] t5570: forward git-daemon messages in a different way Jeff King

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