Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 22:18:49 +0200
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:39:43 +0100
> 
> So it would seem FD's 4, 7, 8 and 9 are 'reserved' by Perl.
> Could it be due to some breakage involving handles that are
> set as noinherit or close-on-exec?  Is rebuilding Perl using
> CVS libc likely to change things?

I might be missing something--if Perl is built using stock v2.03 libc,
how come any close-on-exec issue could be relevant?  That version of
the library didn't support any close-on-exec stuff.