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Why does sysopen not assign the fd param in this case?
- X-seq: zsh-users 30412
- From: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Why does sysopen not assign the fd param in this case?
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:04:20 +0200
- Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/30412>
- List-id: <zsh-users.zsh.org>
Why doesn't sysopen assign the fd parameter during startup, yet it
does assign it correctly on the command line afterwards?
% cd $(mktemp -d)
% > .zshrc <<EOF
zmodload -F zsh/system b:sysopen
PS1='%# '
PS4=+
set -x
sysopen -r -o cloexec -u fd <( sleep 1 )
print fd=$fd
EOF
% env -i HOME=$PWD PATH=$PATH TERM=$TERM ${TERMINFO:+TERMINFO=$TERMINFO} zsh -d
+sysopen -r -o cloexec -u fd /dev/fd/12
+print 'fd='
fd=
+sleep 1
% sysopen -r -o cloexec -u fd <( sleep 1 ); print fd=$fd
+sysopen -r -o cloexec -u fd /dev/fd/11
+print 'fd=15'
fd=15
% +sleep 1
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