On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:07:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > The tutorial of debconf reads: > > Your postinst uses debconf and starts a daemon that doesn't close > > all inherited file descriptors (all such daemons are buggy, > > really). This makes debconf hang, because the debconf frontend > > waits for the daemon to close the fd's before continuing. > > Note > > that if you use confmodule.sh, the program probably needs to close > > fd's 0, 1, 2, and _3_. > I know that 0,1,2 are stdout, stdin & stderr. But I wonder what "3" refers to?
3 is just another open fd. By convention 0,1,2 are defined, but they need not be those fd's.
