Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:04:16 -0700 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: dup2() vs dup3() inconsistency when |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Inconsistency is bad, too, and one could *definitely* argue that the > fundamental problem is the one of closing a pre-existing descriptor > rather than forcing the user to do that explicitly if that behaviour was > desired.
This is a new interface. It's not breaking any code and fixing problems with older interfaces is exactly what you do in such situations.
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