Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:10:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: why isn't the FSEXT hook implemented for dup in 2.03?
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Mark E. wrote:

> Bash does use
> dup and dup2 on that 'pipe' handle for redirections before spawning a child
> program.

I have re-read the discussion we had in the past about your pipe 
emulation, and I understand that it has something to do with a handle 
that did not original from an FSEXT, but rather a case of FSEXT machinery 
being used to customize the handling a of a real file handle.

If so, this is indeed one of those few ``tricky'' cases where a dup
hook could help.  But most FSEXT uses don't need this.

Anyway, your patches should be in the next release (whenever that
happens ;-).