"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Of course the same argument can be said for fd 0; if the parent does
> close(0) before some other open/socket/pipe call then its obviously
> possible for the parent to get a fd that it wants the child to take
> over and close.
>
> We're basically assuming that the parent will always keep its
> own stdin open if it will be spawning children.  We all know what
> happens when we assume (we double close file descriptors) but I
> think its a reasonable safe assumption to be making.

Ok, that unwritten assumption was what confused me.  We
definitely need Documentation/technical/api-*.txt before any
more code, don't you agree?
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