Re: gawk 3.1.0 can mark fd 0 for close on exec

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> To: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Kenny McCormack)
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Subject: Re: gawk 3.1.0 can mark fd 0 for close on exec
> Date: 4 Nov 2001 11:33:57 -0600
>
> In article <address@hidden>,
> Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:
> >It turns out that gawk 3.1.0 can mark fd 0 as close-on-exec.  This is
> >a bug.  Thanks to a poster on comp.lang.awk for pointing this out.
> >Patch below.
> >
> >Again, I remind everyone that if you see strange behavior in gawk,
> >in particular if something worked one way in gawk 3.0.6 and works
> >differently in 3.1.0, the right place to ask is address@hidden
> >Posting in comp.lang.awk IS THE WRONG PLACE.
>
> Is posting here (in gnu.utils.bug) acceptable?
>
> For some reason, I prefer newsgroups to email.

Yes; it's two-way gatewayed to the mailing list.

Arnold