Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 03:49:02 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <200009160249.e8G2n3n02415@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:37:06 %2B0200." <56645.968935026@critter>
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> The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge
> of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3).
[.....]
> I would argue that the programs and the scripts that call them are
> already broken, but hey...
So (just to add fuel to the mass opposition), do this without
temporary files:
count=$(program | tee /dev/stderr | wc -l)
exit $count
But then, you also said:
> At the same time I would really love if we implemented "|.*" to mean
> "do an popen(3)" instead.
so I guess this could result in
count=$(program |. cat | wc -l)
exit $count
(substitute correct "|.*" syntax - whatever that is).
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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