Re: Important Bug Fix (Was Re: Truncation of Majordomo diges…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Warner Losh
CC: Pete Ashdown, Exim Mailing List
Subject: Re: Important Bug Fix (Was Re: Truncation of Majordomo digest messages?)
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> Wouldn't dup(2) do the trick here? Or is there something subtle that
> I'm missing about how dup(2) works?


"dup() returns a new file descriptor having the following in common with
the original open file descriptor fildes:

   Same open file (or pipe)
   Same file pointer (that is, both file desciptors share one file 
     pointer) 
   Same access mode .... "


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