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Re: Feature request: ZSH_XTRACEFD variable

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:37 AM Timothée Mazzucotelli <
timothee.mazzucotelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After thinking about it more, do we really want to close the file
> descriptors?
> I mean, when assigning ZSH_XTRACEFD, the file descriptor it points to
> must already exist, i.e. the users must create it themselves, explicitly.
> We never implicitly create file descriptors for this feature,
> so why would we implicitly close them?
>

Excellent point.  Explicitly opened descriptors should be explicitly
closed, except in some special cases of forked subshells.
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