Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:36:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <56076.968924938@critter> References: <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg> <56076.968924938@critter>
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<<On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:48:58 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:
> 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.
It's required if we ever get around to supporting secure set-id shell
scripts. (I think this was the rationale for originally introducing
it.) It also helps when bogus programs refuse to read from the
standard input.
-GAWollman
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