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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [xen-unstable test] 30769: regressions - trouble:
 blocked/broken/fail/pass
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:59:05 +0100
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On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 14:46 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 30769: regressions - trouble: blocked/broken/fail/pass"):
> > On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 17:56 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > >       if (exec 3>&2 2>/dev/null <$f 2>&3 3>&- cat); then exit 0; fi
> > 
> > What are all these terribly exciting redirections (supposed to be)
> > doing?
> 
> It's trying to open the file, without printing a message to stderr if
> it fails, but preserving the stderr so that it can be given to cat.

Wowza!

Now that it's explained I can say I think it is correct, For what it's
worth under the circumstances ;-)

Ian.