From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: B20 patch [was Re: Error in dup???]
14 Nov 1998 09:17:03 -0800
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
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On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:09:04PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have found the error, which leads to the incorrect dup() handling
>in tcsh. The member variable hinfo::first_fd_for_open is set to 3
>in the constructor of hinfo, which give the incorrect later results.
>Initializing to 0 let it work as defined in the standards.

That's not the error.  The = 3 is there for a reason.  It's not
just a coincidence that this starts out at 3.

cgf