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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:22:58 +0600 (NS)
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'Doug Barton'" <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: daemon()
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011082220350.31723-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200011081532.HAA14728@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>

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hi, there!

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Don Lewis wrote:

> } > > 	No one with any brains uses bash 1 for anything 
> } > > anymore.
> } 
> } > Then why is it there? To help up the port count? If it's not good, it should
> } > be nuked, IMHO.
> } 
> } people still use it because it is smaller
> } obrien has already tried to remove it once (in Mar 1999)
> } 
> } as for me -- I do not try to hunt bugs in bash1 and do not blame it.
> } my question was about unclosed pipe
> 
> It appears to be a descriptor that your shell failed to close before
> execing your test program.  Unless you do something out of the ordinary
> like run
> 	program 27>somefile
> the shell should only leave three descriptors (0, 1, and 2 for stdin, stdout,
> and stderr) open when it execs another program.

yes, I understand that. My point is that bash1 is still used and comments
about braindead people who use it should be redirected to /dev/null. I
think we should stop this thread.

/fjoe



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