Re: detect pipe

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-01-30 11:00:15 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 6:27 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Cool stuff Bart.  Would you please elaborate on 'Close stdin'?
> 
> ubuntu% ls /dev/fd/0
> /dev/fd/0
> ubuntu% ls /dev/fd/0 <&-
> ls: cannot access '/dev/fd/0': No such file or directory
> 
> File descriptor zero, the standard input, has been closed; it
> literally does not exist for "ls" (in this example).  If it's closed,
> it's not possible to read from it:
> 
> ubuntu% cat <&-
> cat: -: Bad file descriptor
> cat: closing standard input: Bad file descriptor
> 
> Most commands will ignore a closed stdin and behave similarly to
> reading from /dev/null.

Closing stdin is a bad idea, as this can break stdout redirection,
and this may be out of control of the commands. See

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=682

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