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I think you're wrong.  The only occurrence of /dev/std* in the source
is in a table that makes them work in awk programs.  That is,

awk 'BEGIN {print "hello world" >"/dev/stderr" }'

works because of that table.  It's not a bug.

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> Frobbing exit[s] (and making it grok UTF-8?) are not evil designs on life,
> the universe, and everything.

it will behave just like it does now on plan 9 except you can go:

    exit "foo"

now testing it is probably going to be a bugger.

i did find this bug:

/dev/std* were being used instead of /fd/*
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