From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:37:13 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <1506341239.18395.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <20170925151827.GP28606@mcvoy.com> <646c7556-8300-d4ab-47fd-633352ea18e7@case.edu> <20170926145326.GX28606@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 9/26/17 8:58 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Grant Taylor wrote: > >>> Exactly; why 255 of all things? >> >> High order of 8 bits?  (Assuming low order starts at 0.) > > Yeah, but still doesn't answer the question, application-wise.  I'm gonna > guess (without digging through the source) that it's a "dup2(0, 255)*" or > something, to "save" a copy of stdin/out/err for some obscure reason. I already answered this. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/