Re: Bug#501566: dash: details of redirection/duplication in manpage are reversed

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2014-11-11 14:23:21 +0100, Stephen Shirley:
> [...]
>> "[n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or n1) to n2."
>> 
>> It doesn't cover the case where n2 is later changed, and how n1 does
>> not follow this, but it's the simplest fix i see.
> [...]
> 
> That's ambiguous.
> 
> Maybe:
> 
> [n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to the same "open
>            file description" as on fd n2.
> 
> [n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to the same
>            resource as open on fd n2.
> 
> [n1]>&n2    Copy fd n2 as stdout (or fd n1)
> 
> ?

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