Re: strange files being created

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:54:30AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:02:21AM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote:
> > Hmm, this could be due to some bug in a bash/sh script, when somebody
> > wanted to redirect something to the sdtin (fd=0) and wrote "> 0" instead
> > of ">&0"...
> 
> Could be, except stdin is fd 1, not 0 (this is true in at least bash
> and ash.)


 err, _every_ unix everywhere has the same meanings for file descriptors 0,
1, and 2. (std{in,out,err}, respectively).  The file descriptor numbers are
interpreted by the kernel, so different shells will not do it differently.


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