Bionix1441
Reputation: 2319
Do duplicated descriptor files get closed after closing the original file descriptor?
When duplicating a file descriptor fd calling dup, and closing the original file descriptors.
Do all the duplicated file descriptors get closed also?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 902
Answers (1)
Some programmer dude
Reputation: 409136
No the duplicates won't be closed. Otherwise the main use-case (duplicating into STDOUT_FILENO and STDIN_FILENO) would be pretty useless.
Upvotes: 4
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