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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Is it considered to be ok to not check the return code of
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In message <20180106215947.GG95035@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks Dav=
is writes:

>The portable API is terrible and closefrom() with arguments
>other than 3 (or maybe 4) is in many ways worse with require dup2(2)
>shenanigans.

Agreed.

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