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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: rshd depends on risky assumption
Message-ID: <10808@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Aug 89 17:29:23 GMT
References: <10803@smoke.BRL.MIL> <KARL.89Aug23121144@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <KARL.89Aug23121144@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
-gwyn@smoke.brl.mil writes:
-   The 4.3BSD rshd (normally in its child branch) unconditionally
-   closes an FD named "f" in the source code without checking whether
-   f = 0, 1, or 2.
-It doesn't have to do so.  `f' is passed into doit() from main() as a
-constant 0.

If it were, then the code would be horribly wrong!