Re: rshd depends on risky assumption

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From: Karl Kleinpaste
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1989 16:11

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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil writes:
   The 4.3BSD rshd (normally in its child branch) unconditionally
   closes an FD named "f" in the source code without checking whether
   f = 0, 1, or 2.

It doesn't have to do so.  `f' is passed into doit() from main() as a
constant 0.

--Karl

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