shell file descriptor programming (was: Unlinked temp files)

[Scott Schwartz]

In article <8087 at june.cs.washington.edu>, ka at june (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>It's supposed to be a feature.  The idea is that if you save file
>descriptors by moving them, you don't necessarily want to pass them
>to the programs you run.
...
>because the feature only applies to file descriptors greater than two.

Yuck!  What an unpleasant 'feature'.  It's even got magic special cases
to know about.  Who do I write to to vote against this?
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Scott Schwartz		<schwartz at shire.cs.psu.edu>