> instead. Or just think to yourself "STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR are not like > the other filehandles my program might deal with, as they are provided > by the shell/os, so maybe they /should/ look different"
*snork*. There's absolutely NOTHING magical about file descriptors zero, one, and two and I've had to use them as regular file descriptors for ordinary files more than once, back when you only got twenty of the buggers.
