On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Rannaud <e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Doesn't fast-import get a copy of 8 (open for both reading and >> writing), as a child process, and exec 8>&- only closes the copy of >> the file descriptor in the parent shell, so the named pipe remains >> open for writing somewhere (in the fast-import process itself, in >> fact), therefore fast-import will not find EOF on its stdin? > > AHHHHhhhh. If that was done intentionally, well, I really have to > marvel at the cleverness of the solution! It makes sense now to me. I plead the Fifth.
