Re: kern/44950: fcntl(F_MAXFD) returns bogus values

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:55:01PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>  .... Note that
>  you cannot depend on what file descriptors the shell may have open. Just to
>  give an example, if you do an NIS operation you end up with a file descriptor
>  open.

I fairly sure that the shell command line redirects have to refer to
file 0 through 9 in an exec'd child process - so those can't be used
for other purposes.

I did think that that the shell shouldn't really leave anything else open.

        David

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