bash script outputs "cannot make pipe for process substitution: Too many open files"
Issue
A pipe fd leak occurred in Process Substitution of bash script. As a result, bash script outputs the following message.
./test.sh: cannot make pipe for process substitution: Too many open files
Execute the following script to reproduce:
#!/bin/bash
sub(){
while :
do
/bin/true <(/bin/true)
done
}
sub
exit
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and 7
- bash
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