Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:16:00 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: freopen/_creat(w2k) interaction [was: Re: Build problems]
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:46:31 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > The example where the FreeDOS problem was reported had to do with
> > redirection.  Normally, you redirect with the dup/open/dup2/close
> > series.  In that case, some code did dup/close/open instead, and
> > expected to get the same handle from open as the one closed by the
> > preceding close.
> > 
> > I don't remember what code was that, but it was from djlsr IIRC.  I
> > will try to search mail archives on DJ's server.

After searching the archives high and low, I found that it was on
OpenDOS, not FreeDOS.  See the thread Re: interesting redir behavior
on djgpp mailing list.  Here's the first message in that thread:

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/1997/07/08/02:18:47

The problem happened in `redir', and I think it's fixed since then.

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