Re: settrans and stdin

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> Passive translators don't have any stdio when they are starter (all of
> stdin, stdout and stderr point to /dev/null or something like that).

File descriptors 0 and 1 (as well as 2, though I have not checked the
latter myself) are unused on startup of a passive translator.

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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