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



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.)


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