From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 1: 9: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2AC37B477 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchorageinternet.org (groggy.anc.acsalaska.net [208.151.119.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3239E43E3B for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 01:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@anchorageinternet.org) Received: (from abc@localhost) by anchorageinternet.org (8.12.3/8.11.6) id g6G85rRA001665 for "freebsd-questions" ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:05:53 GMT (envelope-from abc@anchorageinternet.org) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:05:53 GMT From: Abc Xyz Message-Id: <200207160805.g6G85rRA001665@anchorageinternet.org> Subject: /dev/null and 2>&- X-Mailer: Umail v2.3 To: "freebsd-questions" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i just installed 4.6-RELEASE, and notice that the '2>&-' sh (FBSD) construct seems to be broken. i am going thru all my scripts having to change it to /dev/null ... i figure it's not realistic to assume a bug this obvious would make it to release stage, so my question is - is something else going on? or is this just due to changes in 'sh'? is it a bug? or is it a permenent change? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message