27 Sep
2017
27 Sep
'17
2:58 a.m.
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Grant Taylor 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.
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OK, "getdtablesize() - 1" instead of 255...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
Exactly; why
255 of all things?
High order of 8 bits? (Assuming low order starts at 0.)