SOLVED: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What occurred to me is to send the final result to fd 3, which the
>> shell would have to have opened before forking. ...
>
> http://pastebin.com/RGBuRw0e
> It appears to work.

P.P.S.:

  Slightly different version:

http://pastebin.com/XdxWjpeU

  I realized this morning that I should be able to specify the file
descriptor numbers explicitly.  Although that may or may not be
clearer.  The first one assigned symbolic names to the file
descriptors, which I think I like better.

-- Ben