bats/background-process: Close file descriptor 3 #227
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Closes #226. From the comment within
run_in_background
:Bats duplicates standard output as file descriptor 3 so that output from its framework functions isn't captured along with any output from the code under test. If the code under test contains a
sleep
or other blocking operation, this file descriptor will be held open until the process becomes unblocked, preventing Bats from exiting. Hence, we explicitly close file descriptor 3.Any other code running under Bats that opens a background process should close this file descriptor as well. See: sstephenson/bats#80
Much thanks to @marascio for discovering and researching the problem, and proposing the actual fix.