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commit f15bc5b04c7acc65f321ed3875e741000d0ce409
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue May 27 11:07:01 2008 -0600

    Document Solaris /bin/sh redirection pitfall.
    
    * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Mention redirection bug.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    5 +++++
 doc/autoconf.texi |   13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 15adde0..5d2c610 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-05-27  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       Document Solaris /bin/sh redirection pitfall.
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (File Descriptors): Mention redirection bug.
+
 2008-05-14  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        Improve documentation of ! issues.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index ee1ede5..cef2d3b 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -12698,6 +12698,19 @@ $
 Within the process which runs the @samp{descrips} script, file
 descriptor 5 is closed.
 
+Don't rely on redirection to a closed file descriptor to cause an
+error.  With Solaris @command{/bin/sh}, when the redirection fails, the
+output goes to the original file descriptor.
+
address@hidden
+$ @kbd{bash -c 'echo hi >&3' 3>&-; echo $?}
+bash: 3: Bad file descriptor
+1
+$ @kbd{/bin/sh -c 'echo hi >&3' 3>&-; echo $?}
+hi
+0
address@hidden example
+
 @acronym{DOS} variants cannot rename or remove open files, such as in
 @samp{mv foo bar >foo} or @samp{rm foo >foo}, even though this is
 perfectly portable among Posix hosts.


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