On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:47:08AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: | On 11/23/2010 08:58 PM, Luke Mewburn wrote: | > Is there any reason that AT_CHECK doesn't close this fd before | > executing the application? | | Thanks for reporting the problem. | | I don't know of any reason AT_CHECK wouldn't do that, but I'm | not intimately familiar with the code. Perhaps Paolo (who contributed | this code back in 2003) can comment. | | > I've attached a patch that performs this, against autoconf-2.68. | | That patch doesn't smell right to me. The output is being redirected | for a reason, and simply undoing the redirection feels odd. I | suspect that any fix should be done inside AT_CHECK instead. Could | you try the following instead, and see whether it works for you? I'm | not sure it's right (hadn't had time to analyze this code) but I think | it's an improvement. Your patch also solves the problem. thanks, Luke.
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