[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Strange redirection in mountnfs.sh

[Thomas Hood]

In mountnfs.sh, after reading through fstab, the script does the following:

    exec 0>&1

That is, file descriptor 0 (stdin) is made a copy of file descriptor 1 (stdout)!

I don't understand this.  Is it a mistake?


Background: I am studying mountnfs.sh because I am hoping to speed it up by replacing:

	(
	...
	) < /etc/fstab

with:

	exec 9<&0 < /etc/fstab
	...
	exec 0<&9 9<&-

which is what checkroot.sh does.  This would eliminate an unnecessary subprocess.
-- 
Thomas