Re: [Patch] autoconf.sh - no FD + chmod at right time

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 19, 2001, "Tim Van Holder" <address@hidden> wrote:

Tim> Which one? I tried 3, 5 and 6 as well; they gave the same errors.
>> 
>> Can't we go higher?
> Doesn't seem to do much good.  Odd though - a simple shell script doing
> simple redirection works for FD's 3 through 15.  The same script even
> works if run from Perl.

I think the problem has to do with open files.  You can't bind a new
file descriptor to a file that is already open.  At least that's my
understanding.

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