Bug 1002004 - ksh subshell exits with 'open file limit exceeded'
Summary: ksh subshell exits with 'open file limit exceeded'
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ksh
Version: 6.4
Hardware: x86_64
OS: All
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Siteshwar Vashisht
QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps
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Reported: 2013-08-28 10:01 UTC by hgruber
Modified: 2017-06-13 08:01 UTC (History)
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The Problem occurs in an OpenVZ container with RHEL 6 running on a RHEL 5 hardware node. The problem does not occur on an RHEL 6 hardware node or on an OpenVZ container with RHEL 6 running on a RHEL 6 hardware node. It's getting complicated now.
Last Closed: 2017-06-13 08:01:00 UTC
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Description hgruber 2013-08-28 10:01:58 UTC 
A subshell exits with 'open file limit exceeded'.

Problem occurs in:         ksh-20100621-19.el6_4.4.x86_64
Problem does not occur in: ksh-20100621-16.el6.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
$ echo `echo $var|cut -c1`
cut: write error: Bad file descriptor
ksh: open file limit exceeded [Bad file descriptor]

Additional info: This could be related to Bug #781498
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-14 02:31:38 UTC 
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