From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18248 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2009 17:17:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 18235 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Sep 2009 17:17:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il (HELO mtaout3.012.net.il) (84.95.2.7) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:17:51 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KPG00200ICOUA00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:17:47 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.50.163]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KPG00K51IPNB0A0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:17:47 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:17:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Redirection from fd 7 in configure To: gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83ws4e4omy.fsf@gnu.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 What is the purpose of the following line in the GDB configure files? exec 7<&0 &1 I understand what it does, but why would the configure script want to do that, and what could go wrong if I modify it (within gdb/config/djgpp/djconfig.sh) to say what we had with previous Autotools, namely exec 6>&1 I'm asking because the DJGPP port of Bash 2.04 doesn't like the new form, so I'd like to know if it's safe to use the previous version. TIA