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Descriptors above 2

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Descriptors above 2
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:30:18 -0700 (PDT)
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This was in reference to a problem with smartlist's installer shell
scripts.  Commands of the form `exec 4<&0; subcommand' were failing.

Just an FYI.

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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:59:50 -0500
From: Philip Guenther <guenther@xxxxxxx>

Checking a copy of the manpage for the newest ksh from AT&T Labs,
I see that redirections to file descriptors greater than 2 are set to
be close-on-exec.

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