Re: pfiles handle 255

Rodrick R. Brown wrote:
Anyone know off hand why the following handle is usually opened by most proccesses and usually given the highest allowed number in the open file process table?

255: S_IFCHR mode:0620 dev:274,0 ino:12582918 uid:100 gid:7 rdev:24,1
O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_LARGEFILE FD_CLOEXEC
/devices/pseudo/pts@0:1


That's a bash feature:

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/bash/bash-3.0/general.c#413

Used that way:

/* Open the script. But try to move the file descriptor to a randomly
large one, in the hopes that any descriptors used by the script will
not match with ours. */
.

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