Ping, did this email go through to the list?
Profpatsch <[email protected]> writes: > I had quite big problems getting an intuition for fdmove, and the way > aranea phrased it (by effect) makes a lot of sense to me. > --- > doc/fdmove.html | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/fdmove.html b/doc/fdmove.html > index 39bdb2b..b9a0e46 100644 > --- a/doc/fdmove.html > +++ b/doc/fdmove.html > @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ instead of moving it; do not close <em>fdfrom</em>. </li> > > <h2> Notes </h2> > > +<blockquote> > + <p><tt>fdmove <em>1</em> <em>2</em> prog...</tt> means: if you write to > <tt>fd <em>1</em></tt> now, it’ll have the same effect as writing to <tt>fd > <em>2</em></tt> before, and you can’t write to <tt>fd <em>2</em></tt> anymore. > +<br /> > +… and<tt> fdmove -c <em>1</em> <em>2</em> prog...</tt> means: you can also > still write to <tt>fd <em>2</em></tt> and it’ll have the same effect as > before.</p> > +</blockquote> > + > <ul> > <li> <tt>fdmove -c <em>a</em> <em>b</em> prog...</tt> is roughly equivalent > to > <tt>sh -c 'exec prog... <em>a</em>>&<em>b</em>'</tt></li>
