On 9/26/17 11:42 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Chet Ramey wrote:
Yeah, but
still doesn't answer the question, application-wise. I'm
gonna guess (without digging through the source) that it's a "dup2(0,
255)*" or something, to "save" a copy of stdin/out/err for some obscure
reason.
I already answered this.
You didn't, actually,
I really did: job control and terminal operations. I added more detail
in another message this morning.
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