opendir(/dev/fd/n) should fail

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 23 11:09, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
> (23/01/2015 10:54)
> > 
> > It's not just bash. The same happens in my home-grown shell. Starting 
> > with /dev/fd/3 opendir succeeds giving (only the opendir-entries):
> 
> Maybe it's because:
> 
> 3 -> /proc/3008/fd/
> 
> which recurses into /dev/fd again?

Yes, that seems likely.


Corinna

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