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Subject: Re:  A possible security bug fix
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Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 11:52:02 EDT
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From:            Bob English 

I don't think the '$ foo 2>&-' complaint is a valid one.  It
could be easily addressed either by '$ foo 2>& /dev/null' or
by having the shell itself do the /dev/null connection when the
user attempts to disconnect one of the standard outputs.

--bob--