Re: lib/45148: dup2(3) and dup3(3) should support EINVAL

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/45148; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/45148: dup2(3) and dup3(3) should support EINVAL
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:55:15 +0300

 On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 03:25:02AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  dup3 should be a superset of dup2, IOW, dup2(a, b) === dup3(a, b, 0).
 >  Anything else is insane and begging for bizarre problems in the future.
 
 dup3() is Linux-specific function. I think it is important to do what Linux
 does. (If it was up to NetBSD, I doubt whether we would even have it.)