Re: Identifying the NetBSD shell

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On March 21, 2016 11:08:50 PM EDT, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
>> if a script wants to know if it can safely redirect file
>> descriptors >= 10 (answer for NetBSD right now is definitely no)
>> that is a little difficult to embed in the script.
>
>Redirecting fd >= 10 is rather a specialized use-case. Is it possible
>to detect it dynamically?

It doesn't seem that specialized.  I've seen scripts that do that with e.g. fd 99 as a way to pick some arbitrary high fd number that is unlikely to be used by other parts of the script.
I'm pretty surprised that it wouldn't work in NetBSD's shell.

Eric