> Yes, I can work around this issue with sh -c 'git fetch > 0</dev/null', and maybe it shouldn't close(0) in the first place. > But I don't see the harm in being safe. It's one less potential > surprise for users. This is the first program I've encountered > that broke due to stdin being closed Not really. I suspect every program that uses pipe/dup to fork a child could be wrong (the only one I ever wrote breaks), and I wonder if the higher-level popen(3) interface works properly. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html