In message <20020801135402.K2158@styx.org>, ww@styx.org writes:
>On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:34:07PM -0400, John Franklin wrote:
>> 
>> I disagree.  Too much software treats fd 0-2 as sacred.  I don't think
>> that open(2) should ever return a fd below 3.  I don't belive this would
>> break anything.
>
>how would you redirect output to a file then? usually this
>is implemented with something like
>
>  close(1);
>  fd = open("somefile", O_WRONLY);
>
>-w
>
You could use dup2().  But I suspect there's a lot of code around that 
does it your way.

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