From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2612 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 01:30:29 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 01:30:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 29386 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2001 01:30:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15438 Received: (qmail 29373 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 01:30:21 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:30:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Bart Schaefer To: Subject: Descriptors above 2 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This was in reference to a problem with smartlist's installer shell scripts. Commands of the form `exec 4<&0; subcommand' were failing. Just an FYI. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:59:50 -0500 From: Philip Guenther Checking a copy of the manpage for the newest ksh from AT&T Labs, I see that redirections to file descriptors greater than 2 are set to be close-on-exec.