Op 16-01-19 om 14:32 schreef Herbert Xu: > So I'm going to go for a more complicated fix: The v3 patch introduces a bug: ====begin test script==== init() { exec 8</dev/null } >&- { init : <&8 && echo ok } 8<&- ====end test script==== Actual output: test2.sh: 9: test2.sh: 8: Bad file descriptor Expected output: ok The 'read' gets a 'bad file descriptor', so the effect of the 'exec' from the init function is lost. Interestingly, removing either the ">&-" from the function definition block, or the "8<&-" from the other braces block, or both, makes the error go away. - Martijn