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, but I'll be generous and assume that you genuinely
missed my point as opposed to being deliberately obtuse; I don't think I
can make it any clearer, but I see that Larry "got it".
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