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sr #110743: odd behavior of process substitution in `for` list

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Submitted:  Mon 17 Oct 2022 01:25:30 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Done
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Thu 20 Oct 2022 06:05:38 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the report. Bash was too eager to close the process substitution file descriptors; it needs to wait until the for command completes.

It's a minor problem with a relatively easy fix. The fix will be in the next devel branch push.

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Mon 17 Oct 2022 01:25:30 AM UTC, original submission:  

While playing around with process substitution I encountered the following corner case:


$ for i in <(echo 1) <(echo 2); do cat $i; done
1
cat: /dev/fd/62: No such file or directory

$ true; for i in <(echo 1) <(echo 2); do cat $i; done
1
2


I expected that either both `cat` invocations would succeed (as happens in the second command), or they would both fail (so the auxiliary FDs would be closed after evaluating the list of the `for` loop). For what it's worth, in `zsh` they both succeed.

The actual behavior is surprising for two reasons:

  • the second command behaves differently from the first
  • the first command closes the auxiliary FDs for the process substitution between the first and second loop iterations (this can be confirmed by running the shell with `strace -eclose`)


Note: as far as I can tell, this is not a race; extending the lifetime of the subprocesses with `sleep` makes no difference.

Anyway, is there a bug lurking here? I cannot, as a user, explain the fact why the two commands are different. But on the other hand this is a corner case that I feel noone should rely on for serious scripting, so it's a minor bug at worst.

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