R. Bernstein wrote: > Right now what bashdb assumes that file descriptors 4 through 9 are > free, but it really has no right to assume that. And in fact, GNU > autoconf configure will use file descriptors in this range. Also using > 4-9 we is pretty limited in in file descriptors. This is less of an > issue, but still annoying and arbitrarily restrictive.
Why do you limit yourself to file descriptors 4-9? Bash doesn't restrict you to single-digit fds. I know there have been close-on-exec problems with fds > 10 in the past, but those should be fixed. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
