Re: Leak in BASH "named" file descriptors?

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/28/16 6:56 PM, Reuti wrote:

> The man page of bash 4.2 says about REDIRECTION: In this case [...] the shell 
> will allocate a file descriptor greater than 10 and assign it to varname.
> 
> While looking into this discussion, I get 10 as first varname assigned in 
> this way. Either a bug in bash or the man page?

That was changed years ago.

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