Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:45:58 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devfs and /dev/fd/3 Message-ID: <34135.1054734358@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:30:19 %2B0200." <20030604133019.GA50874@stack.nl>
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In message <20030604133019.GA50874@stack.nl>, Marc Olzheim writes: >Hi. > >I've seen the question once before, but it was not answered (on-list ?), >so now that I run in on it, I'd like to know what to do: > >On FreeBSD 4.x, without devfs, the following worked: >( echo foo | tee /dev/fd/3 | tr f F ) 3>&1 > >It should produce both "foo" and "Foo" > >FreeBSD 5 with devfs, however, does not create a /dev/fd/3 upon opening >filedescriptor 3 by the shell, so there's no device to write to... > >How can I fix or circumvent this, aside from mounting a ufs partition >with mknod-ed files over /dev/fd ? mount fdescfs -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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