Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:54:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000915115311.45037E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <39C0885A.41C67EA6@elischer.org>
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: > I've never thought of a use for fdescfs... I used /dev/fd/1 just yesterday for a third-party precompiled binary that insists on outputting to a file specified on the command line. Slapping in /dev/fd/1 lets me stuff the command in a pipe chain. Same goes for /dev/fd/0. Other file descriptors, I'm less sure about :-) Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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