begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:10:44PM -0700: [snip] > You can have as many channels as you wish, limited only by the > availability of file descriptors. (a small non-negative integer). > > Historically the first three channels, 0, 1, and 2, were given names > stdin, stdout, and stderr, respectively. Use of other file > descriptors is not standardized, so to speak.
Don't the bourne shells allow for a greater number of streams than the minimum? -- my_funky_program 3>&1 Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
