Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:43:08 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: system(3) && open file descriptors Message-ID: <20140429184307.GA1114@tiny-r255948>
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Hi, It seems that the proc started by the C library call system(3), as /bin/sh -c string owns the same set of open file descriptors as its calling proc. Is this somewhere documented as a feature? 'man system" does not say anything about, while 'man fork' does. Thx matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz, <guru@unixarea.de>, http://www.unixarea.de/ f: +49-170-4527211 UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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