28 Sep
2017
28 Sep
'17
8:04 p.m.
On 9/28/17 1:57 PM, Derek Fawcus wrote:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 06:44:20PM +0100, Derek Fawcus
wrote:
No, the opening of /dev/tty to get the controlling terminal instead of
assuming you can use fd 2 for it is your fault. :-)
Bash always used an unused fd close to the fd limit to save the handle.
--
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 08:34:28AM -0400, Chet
Ramey wrote:
Or not - given that macOS, using an older bash already used 255: Yes, that changed in 2007 based on bug reports
you filed while working at Cisco.
So fd 255 is my fault? :-)