Hi mark.

 ml> how did you find out that filedescriptor 3 was connected to a
 ml> socket?

one way to find that sort of info is

ls -l /proc/$$/fd

 which will list the shell's file descriptors

or

ls -l /proc/self/fd

which gives you ls's file desciptors  (which will include the directory
/proc/self/fd )

 -=> Bye <=-

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