From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 14 8:39:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C67E37B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA12284; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:36:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:36:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! In-Reply-To: <56076.968924938@critter> References: <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg> <56076.968924938@critter> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message