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From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
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Subject: system(3) && open file descriptors
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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

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Matthias Apitz, <guru@unixarea.de>, http://www.unixarea.de/ f: +49-170-4527211
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