Re: Possible "new" redirect style for /bin/sh (needs a name)

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> 	exec {var}>pathname
>> [...]
> 2) A "named fd" var once set is neither writable nor directly
> readable by the script; it is read-only except it is only "readable"
> by the implementation;

I don't like this; it makes it impossible to do things like put the fd
number on the command line of a program.  Instead of

	program -fd ${var}

you'd have to do something like

	program -fd 3 3>&${var}

which, to me, defeats much (though admittedly not all) of the point.

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