Re: standards/40554

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/40554; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: standards/40554
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:28:54 +0200

 On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Robert Elz wrote:
 >    |  >  So, what's incorrect about the current wording?
 >  I assumed that he meant that the man page says (simplified)
 >  "duplicate stdout to n2" which kind of suggests dup2(1,n2)
 >  whereas what really happens is dup2(n2,1).
 
 We could say "redirect file descriptor n1 to a duplicate of file
 descriptor n2".
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)