Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:55:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <200009141855.LAA83998@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg>, Peter Pentchev writes
> :
> >On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:12:10AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> I've never thought of a use for fdescfs...
> >
> >Well.. just a trivial example - imagine a program which takes a filename
> >as an argument; imagine yourself trying to pipe something into it -
> >passing /dev/fd/0 as a filename to process would do the trick.
>
> I must admit that I think in general that /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd
> is bogus. It looks like something which happened "because we can" more
> than something which has a legitimate need.
How about the fact that the printing chapter in the Handbook uses /dev/fd/0
in its example of setting up a print filter using ghostscript since gs
doesn't read from stdin by default or use '-' for that purpose. Hmmm??
> If anything I would propose we ditch it...
Tools, not policy, as you are so fond of saying.
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