In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Fromme writes :
>1. I have some shell scripts that make use of redirections >with file descriptors (3>&1 and /dev/fd/3 etc.). Those >worked under 4.x out of the box, but didn't work in 5.0, >because there is no /dev/fd/3 in DEVFS. I solved this by >manually mounting FDESCFS over /dev/fd -- is that the right >solution, or is there a better way? There is a bug in the /bin/sh which I belive may be present in 5.0-R where the shell uses fd=3 internally. For the other part of the question: yes, that is the right way if you want to use filedescriptors > 2. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
