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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#501566: dash: details of redirection/duplication in manpage are reversed
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:13:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141112021325.GA23715@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141111141911.GC4343@chaz.gmail.com>

Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-11-11 14:23:21 +0100, Stephen Shirley:
> [...]
>> "[n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or n1) to n2."
>> 
>> It doesn't cover the case where n2 is later changed, and how n1 does
>> not follow this, but it's the simplest fix i see.
> [...]
> 
> That's ambiguous.
> 
> Maybe:
> 
> [n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to the same "open
>            file description" as on fd n2.
> 
> [n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to the same
>            resource as open on fd n2.
> 
> [n1]>&n2    Copy fd n2 as stdout (or fd n1)
> 
> ?

Stephane, please keep the cc list in future list replies as
otherwise people may miss your messages since not everyone is
subscribed and even those subscribed may filter out messages
not addressed to them directly.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-10 11:19 dash: details of redirection/duplication in manpage are reversed Stéphane Aulery
2014-11-10 13:24 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-10 13:49   ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-11-11 13:23     ` Bug#501566: " Stephen Shirley
2014-11-11 14:19       ` Stephane Chazelas
2014-11-12  2:13         ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2014-11-11 15:08       ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-11 20:46         ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-11-11 20:47           ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-11-12  2:12             ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-12 11:09               ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-11-21 11:52               ` [MAN] Clarify two redirection mechanisms saulery
2014-12-01 10:04                 ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-01 12:27                   ` Stephane Chazelas
2014-11-18 23:27       ` Bug#501566: dash: details of redirection/duplication in manpage are reversed Stéphane Aulery
2014-11-18 23:46         ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-11-19  0:00           ` Stéphane CHAZELAS

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