Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 15:37:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Out of selectors problem with bash
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Or are the selectors lost for the parent as well as for the child when the
> child spawns?

Precisely.  The selectors belong to certain a virtual machine, i.e. to 
the entire DOS box.

Microsoft has a talent to trap you into their bugs and misfeatures, and to
seal all exits and work-arounds for those bugs.  It's almost as if they
considered every possible way out you would think about and consistently
blocked every one of them.