Comment 6 for bug 1179287

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Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos) wrote :

Oh, and how about doing something like 'exec 3<&x' to redirect xtrace to fd#3?

Doesn’t mix well with 'mksh -x foo' though.

Also, 'exec x>&3' can't be extended that way, or 'exec file<&x'…
but one could do 'exec 3>foo; exec 3<&x'.

Also, need to think about whether this should dup or not.