From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: why isn't the FSEXT hook implemented for dup in 2.03?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:51:14 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>  - When this was discussed, it seemed to be rather unnecessary to
>    hook dup.  Can you explain under what circumstances do you need
>    this, and why?

I can't speak for the poster's reasons, but I know why I want it. I have a
pipe emulator that I hope to use with Bash that uses FSEXTs. Bash does use
dup and dup2 on that 'pipe' handle for redirections before spawning a child
program. Without FSEXTs for dup and dup2, the emulator doesn't work since
Bash naturally expects to be able to dup and dup2 it like any other file
handle..


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