[TCLCORE] Magic FDs, Was: Re: TIP #355: Stop Fast Recycling of Channel Names on Unix

[Lars H. <Lar...@re...>]

Larry W. Virden skrev:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Alexandre
> Ferrieux<ale...@gm...> wrote:
>>  TIP #355: STOP FAST RECYCLING OF CHANNEL NAMES ON UNIX
>>
> 
>>  This TIP proposes to replace the file descriptor in unix channel names
>>  by an ever-increasing, process-unique counter.
> 
> 
> Will there be a method that allows one to redirect stdin, stdout,
> and/or stderr, (or for that matter, other specific file descriptiors)
> if the user needs to do that?
> 
> I know that I've written my share of ksh scripts that make use of that
> functionality to be able to gather information from an applications
> stdout or stderr or to feed various files into an application. It
> would be unfortunate if this type of functionality were lost
> altogether.

Since the subject of FDs 0,1,2 has come up, is anything happening with 
respect to bug#2827015 
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2827015&group_id=10894&atid=110894)
?

I believe there is a working patch, but I'd prefer to see an 
independent confirmation of this...

Lars Hellström