William D. Jones

#lazyweb

https://www.ivarch.com/programs/quickref/pv.shtml

> The pv process will exit when all FDs have either changed to a different file, changed read/write mode, or have closed, and all PIDs (without a specific FD) have exited.

> when all FDs have... changed to a different file

Uhhh, how does that work w/o closing first?

ivarch.com: Pipe Viewer: Online Manual

Mar 24 at 10:00pmWeb
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@cr1901 I thiiiink you could dup2() over top of an existing FD and it would then point to a different file? I’m not 100% sure though, would have to test it out.