Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:35:58 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <20000914183558.K77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg> <56076.968924938@critter> <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> [/dev/stdin] also helps when bogus programs refuse to read from the
> standard input.
Or if you want to read more than one file, one of which is standard input.
e.g.
gzip -dc oldlogs.*.gz | cat /dev/stdin todays-log | log-analyzer ...
Of course that will work with "-" instead of "/dev/stdin" but I
personally think it's the "-" hack to mean stdin/stdout which should be
abolished, not /dev/std{in,out,err}. No doubt others will disagree.
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