Re: piping question

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 5,  2:17pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
} Subject: Re: piping question
}
} On 4 October 2014 17:50, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
} > Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
} >
} >> On Oct 3,  4:42pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
} >> }
} >> } echo hi there | { xterm -e 'most <& 7' 7< <(cat) }
} >>
} >> I avoided that because I was concerned that some terminal emulators
} >> would close all the descriptors above 2 when launching the command.
} >
} > Unfortunately, all these hacks don't work with urxvt.  If anyone has an
} > idea how to do it, I'd like to see.
} 
} It works fine for me


Curious.  It does NOT work for me -- rxvt v2.6.4 on ubuntu 12.04.5 --
and "strace -ff" shows rxvt closing file descriptors from 3 through
something over 300 (I got tired of watching the output scroll by).