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- .th DUP II 8/5/73
- .sh NAME
- dup \*- duplicate an open file descriptor
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- (dup = 41.; not in assembler)
- .br
- (file descriptor in r0)
- .br
- .ft B
- sys dup
- .s3
- dup(fildes)
- .br
- int fildes;
- .ft R
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- Given
- a file descriptor returned from
- an
- .it open,
- .it pipe,
- or
- .it creat
- call,
- .it dup
- will allocate another file descriptor
- synonymous
- with
- the original.
- The new file descriptor is returned in r0.
- .s3
- .it Dup
- is used more to reassign the value
- of file descriptors
- than to genuinely
- duplicate a file descriptor.
- Since the algorithm to allocate
- file descriptors
- returns the
- lowest available
- value,
- combinations of
- .it dup
- and
- .it close
- can be
- used to
- manipulate file descriptors
- in a general way.
- This is handy for
- manipulating standard input and/or
- standard output.
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- creat (II), open (II), close (II), pipe (II)
- .sh DIAGNOSTICS
- The
- error bit (c-bit)
- is set if:
- the given file descriptor is invalid;
- there are already too many open files.
- From C, a \*-1 returned value indicates an error.
-