Re: Feature request: ZSH_XTRACEFD variable

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:48 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The problem is if we fopen() the file descriptor to use stdio as output, we can either
> leak the entire FILE, not opened by the user, or we can close the entire FILE.

In that case we should be doing the fopen() on a dup() of the
descriptor, and fclose()ing the FILE.

If it is important that fileno(xtrerr) == $ZSH_XTRACEFD, then we should
1) dup() the descriptor to save a copy
2) fopen() the original
3) after fclose(), dup2() the copy back to the original
4) close() the copy

However, I'm not sure it's necessary to be that convoluted.