Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:47:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801090147.UAA16259@delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: randym AT acm DOT org CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <3.0.1.32.19980108163555.007cc9f0@yacker.xiotech.com> (message from Randy Maas on Thu, 08 Jan 1998 16:35:55 -0600) Subject: Re: patch for dup2 Precedence: bulk > The reason is so that DOS knows not to assign the file descriptor to > any subsequent open's or dup's. There's a function for that. __FSEXT_alloc_fd()