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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:17:44 -0700
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/stdout behavior 
Message-ID:  <200209101717.NAA07504@wellington.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:56:19 PDT." <200209101656.g8AGuJ433605@arch20m.dellroad.org> 

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> For example, if you use fcntl() to set flags on fd 0, and then open
> /dev/stdout, the new file descriptor you get back will have those
> same flags set. Run the program below to see an example. This is
> in agreement with the man page, which states that opening /dev/stdout
> is equivalent to dup(2)'ing fd 0.

Careful reading of man stdout will reveal that opening
/dev/stdout is equivalent to dup()ing fd 1, not fd 0.
FreeBSD has a bug.

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