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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: VM problems w/unlimited memory? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 13:22:26 GMT Message-ID: <C41BtF.3vB@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Mar16.031317.8533@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1o4spvINNl1v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Mar16.221837.10302@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Lines: 18 In article <1993Mar16.221837.10302@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > >Since Posix.2 allows multidigit file descriptor specs in redirections, > >there are no `safe' file descriptors for shells to use internally > I don't understand from the > code why it's necessary to get anything other than the next available > descriptor; the ones the shell cares about, 0, 1, and 2, are already > taken at that point; if nothing else a search starting a 3 would be > reasonable. What happens if some script then tries to use that FD with foo 3>&1 & -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.