Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:03:12 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0 issues Message-ID: <44279.1044475392@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:59:27 %2B0100." <200302051959.h15JxRR4081087@lurza.secnetix.de>
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In message <200302051959.h15JxRR4081087@lurza.secnetix.de>, Oliver Fromme writes : >1. I have some shell scripts that make use of redirections >with file descriptors (3>&1 and /dev/fd/3 etc.). Those >worked under 4.x out of the box, but didn't work in 5.0, >because there is no /dev/fd/3 in DEVFS. I solved this by >manually mounting FDESCFS over /dev/fd -- is that the right >solution, or is there a better way? There is a bug in the /bin/sh which I belive may be present in 5.0-R where the shell uses fd=3 internally. For the other part of the question: yes, that is the right way if you want to use filedescriptors > 2. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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