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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Features.
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:09:29 -0800
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To: Oleg Verych <olecom@gmail.com>
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Oleg Verych wrote:
> 
>    5.2 IMHO making user accessible file descriptors in range of [3-9] is
>        kind of silly, when open() returns lowest available fd number,
>        and shell have no semantics of saying "no, this fd is used already".
> 
>        Making them in higher and wider region, say in [100-255] is
>        quite reasonable. Making them as special variables, like
>        parameters `$1' are, makes even more sense, thus preventing any
>        potential problems.
> 

Everyone is using 3-9 though.  I would suggest just moving the lower 
limit higher, e.g. 3-99.

	-hpa