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Aucbvax.5280 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sun Nov 22 10:10:25 1981 POPEN(III) in V7 Stdio >From dpk.bmd70@BRL Sun Nov 22 10:08:20 1981 I have been considering the possibility of closing down all file descripters other than 0,1, and 2 when invoking a process via popen(). Does anyone know of any reason not to make this change? Does anything depend on this "feature"?

Cheers, Doug <DPK@BRL>

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