On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:04:57 -0700 David S. Miller wrote:

Is bash totally broken because of all this?  Or does the problem only
trigger when using (cmd) subprocesses in a certain way?

bash uses pipe() so its ok
using socketpair() instead of pipe() introduces the problem
and we will now have to find an alternative to work around the
linux /dev/fd/N implementation

thanks