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From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:35:51 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?
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On 9/26/17 11:42 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> You didn't, actually, 

I really did: job control and terminal operations. I added more detail
in another message this morning.

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