> An explanation by example: Thanks Matthew, I was wondering whether it had to do with descriptor inheritance. One could call it a bug in the process though, to call programs with insane descriptors. Nevertheless, what would be the correct way for testing in "program" whether the standard descriptors are sane?
(Minor: stderr is fd 2: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-11-24 18:33 /dev/stderr -> fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-11-24 18:33 /dev/stdin -> fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-11-24 18:33 /dev/stdout -> fd/1| ) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
