[Bug 1952584] Re: bash exec command unwanted behaviour

[Chris Guiver]

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** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  bash exec command unwanted behaviour

Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  (GNU bash 4.3.46)
  (ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

  Consider you have out.txt on current dir.
  -------
  >exec 123456789012>out.txt
  bash: exec: 123456789012: not found
  -------
  exec command prints indicated error for large numbers that is supposed to use as a fd but redirects /proc/$$/fd/1 to out.txt silently.

  Additionally,
  -------
  >exec 1234567890>out.txt
  bash: 123456789: Bad file descriptor
  -------
  For large numbers but not that large (I don't inspect the limits!), exec command rejects fd number but silently adds a new fd to current bash process. In every execution of the command, bash adds a new fd to itself again and again.

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