From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: B20 patch [was Re: Error in dup???]
14 Nov 1998 19:21:17 -0800
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
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On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 03:57:52AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>your patch fixes the problem, indeed. Thank you.
>
>Would you be so kind, to explain, _why_ first_fd_for_open is
>initialized to 3? Because I saw no problem, when I initialized
>it to 0 (anything works fine!), I haven't understand it's sense.

It is initialized to 3 so that opens (like the open of utmp, for
instance) that occur prior to stdin/stdout/stderr being established do
not become stdin/stdout/stderr.

cgf