Hello Jay, * Jay K wrote on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:17:39PM CEST: > I don't have the full background any longer, but I made > this change to a configure script: > > before: > > exec 7<&0 </dev/null 6>&1 > > after: > > exec 6>&1 > > my comment at the time (2008-06-03) was: > take minor change to older boilerplate from other nearby > configure files, in order to let it work under "nohup", on OpenBSD > otherwise there is an error about an invalid file handle > > Make sense? Not really, to me at least. > Clearly you are doing this on purpose though. Yes, we are. If you need the original standard input during the configure script, you can get at it with the AS_ORIGINAL_STDIN_FD macro; see `info Autoconf "File Descriptor Macros"'. > Maybe it just prints an error but there's no error? > > I just did a quick experiment with just > > exec 0</dev/null > > and nohup but couldn't get an error. > > I've surely upgraded OpenBSD in the meantime. Well, if you cannot reproduce an error any more, I'll go and claim we shouldn't need to worry until you hit it again. ;-) Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
