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authorPeter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>2019-07-02 13:42:53 +0100
committerPeter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>2019-07-02 13:42:53 +0100
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44480: Don't automatically close externally visible file descroptors.
These are descriptors marked FDT_EXTERNAL.

Make all sysopen'ed file descriptors FDT_EXTERNAL.

Make =(...) call closem() consistent with other substitutions.

Document file descriptors are left open.
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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo b/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
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@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ indent(... tt({myfd}>&1))
 This opens a new file descriptor that is a duplicate of file descriptor
 1 and sets the parameter tt(myfd) to the number of the file descriptor,
 which will be at least 10.  The new file descriptor can be written to using
-the syntax tt(>&$myfd).
+the syntax tt(>&$myfd).  The file descriptor remains open in subshells
+and forked external executables.
 
 The syntax tt({)var(varid)tt(}>&-), for example tt({myfd}>&-), may be used
 to close a file descriptor opened in this fashion.  Note that the