Hi, On 10 November 2014 14:49, Stéphane Aulery <saul...@free.fr> wrote: > Le lundi 10 novembre 2014 à 09:24:09, Herbert Xu a écrit : >> Stéphane Aulery <saul...@free.fr> wrote: >> > >> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501566 >> > >> >> I'm sorry but this patch looks wrong and the text looks correct >> to me as is. > > Ok. I passed the information but I'm not really able to judge its > pertinence. In this case I close this bug.
So, i finally managed to figure out what the problem is. The wording is ambiguous (or maybe just insufficiently clear). "[n1]>&n2 Duplicate standard output (or n1) to n2." How i read it (6 years ago :P) was that meant dup2(n1, n2), because the only actual /duplication/ is of file descriptors. I've just realised that the intended meaning is "redirect n1 to where n2 is currently", i.e. dup2(n2, n1), as expected. Can i suggest a simple fix: "[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. Steve -- "You are technically correct, the best kind of correct." - Bureaucrat 1.0, Futurama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
