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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:39:29 +0100
Subject: what changed in /bin/sh with [n]>&- ?
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after the update

# uname -r
4.6-RELEASE-p1
# /bin/sh -c 'echo "ha" >&-'
ha
#

according to the manpage and my knowledge this should not produce any 
output:

            [n]>&-        close stdout (or file descriptor n)

is this an intentional change or a unwanted feature?

- mo


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