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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kernel bug in socketpair()
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:14:36 -0700
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:11:47 -0400 (EDT)
Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:04:57 -0700 David S. Miller wrote:
> > Is bash totally broken because of all this?  Or does the problem only
> > trigger when using (cmd) subprocesses in a certain way?
> 
> bash uses pipe() so its ok
> using socketpair() instead of pipe() introduces the problem
> and we will now have to find an alternative to work around the
> linux /dev/fd/N implementation

I missed the reason why you can't use pipes and bash
is able to, what is it?

If it's the fchown() thing, why doesn't bash have this issue?