Re: why does </proc/self/environ not work in bash?

[Zachary Santer]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> It means that the function that expands redirection words and manipulates
> files and file descriptors, which still performs more or less the same
> function today, was called post-fork from the very beginning. It doesn't
> have anything to do with parsing.
>

Oh, so all this stuff is just handled in one place. Breaking the
functionality to expand (right) the redirection words into its own function
to be called before the fork would be "gnarly" because there isn't a
very straightforward way to pass those expanded words along to the
remaining bits of this function, still being called after the fork?

Just for my own edification, where would I be looking if I wanted to patch
that? Probably just to see how much of a pain it would be. Haven't touched
C in forever.