> >Synopsis:       sh(1) background job hangs opening a named pipe for stdin

> If 'fifo' is a named pipe, a background command like
> 
> 	program < fifo &
> 
> will hang sh(1).  This is new, broken behavior.  It started with
> the use of vfork(2) in sh(1).

One possible fix is to avoid vfork for asynchronous lists.
(Or maybe async lists with redirections)

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk