Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:02:39 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: Win2k + djgpp
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:14:33 +0200
> > 
> > Yes, but I cannot figure out what does this have to do with the test 
> > program you posted.  To reproduce this failure, a test program should 
> > have called open/dup/dup2 in a typical redirection paradigm, 
> > preferably similar to the code that is actually executed by Bash when
> > it sees a command such as the one above.  Your test program didn't do 
> > that, it just opened files.
> I know; I merely wanted to show that closing those in Perl made them
> available as regular FDs to spawned programs

This is expected: a typical filesystem allocates file handles from the
lowest available one.

> I just rebuilt perl 5.7.2 with the closing of stdaux and stdprn
> disabled (and with CVS libc like before), and now autom4te is working
> happily.  So I'd recommend having perl.c use
> 
>   #if defined(MSDOS) || !defined(__DJGPP__)
> 
> around those two lines.

I'd recommend to actually dig into this and find the real reason for
the problem.