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From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: shell file descriptor programming (was: Unlinked temp files)
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Date: 3 May 89 05:39:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist)

In article <8087@june.cs.washington.edu>, ka@june (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>It's supposed to be a feature.  The idea is that if you save file
>descriptors by moving them, you don't necessarily want to pass them
>to the programs you run.
...
>because the feature only applies to file descriptors greater than two.

Yuck!  What an unpleasant 'feature'.  It's even got magic special cases
to know about.  Who do I write to to vote against this?
-- 
Scott Schwartz		<schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu>