Why dup()?

[David Newall]

> I did have a better example.

I do have a better example.

   ssh localhost 'exec cat > /dev/null 2>&1' | { read l; echo ${l:-EOF}; }

(Bonus points for seeing the irony.)

This should immediately print EOF.  It doesn't, because the duplicate 
file descriptor on stdout prevents pipe closure until ssh exits.

Simply removing dup(), that is, saying "out = STDOUT_FILENO", results in 
correct behavior.  I think it's the right change.  I'll go further and 
suggest that the same change should be made to err.  I would suggest it 
should also be made to in, but that breaks tcsetattr on exit.