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I thought >&- and > /dev/null were almost the same


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: I thought >&- and > /dev/null were almost the same
Date: 24 Nov 2001 09:22:05 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

$ date > /dev/null
$ date >&-
date: write error: Bad file descriptor
$ echo o >&-
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.17-21mdk #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000 i586 
unknown

I swear in the good old days I don't remember any "Bad file
descriptor" ruckus.  And how do you explain echo's okness?
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