Re: piping question

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On 5 October 2014 19:04, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Oct 5,  2:17pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> } Subject: Re: piping question
> }
> } On 4 October 2014 17:50, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> } > Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:
> } >
> } >> On Oct 3,  4:42pm, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> } >> }
> } >> } echo hi there | { xterm -e 'most <& 7' 7< <(cat) }
> } >>
> } >> I avoided that because I was concerned that some terminal emulators
> } >> would close all the descriptors above 2 when launching the command.
> } >
> } > Unfortunately, all these hacks don't work with urxvt.  If anyone has an
> } > idea how to do it, I'd like to see.
> }
> } It works fine for me
>
>
> Curious.  It does NOT work for me -- rxvt v2.6.4 on ubuntu 12.04.5 --
> and "strace -ff" shows rxvt closing file descriptors from 3 through
> something over 300 (I got tired of watching the output scroll by).

These days urxvt hardly shares any code with rxvt, the fork happened
over ten years ago.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson