Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:50:20 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: green@unixhelp.org, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c Message-ID: <199907030350.NAA01426@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>We have /dev/std{in,out,err}. We also have /dev/fd/. Just how many solutions
>to a problem do we need before we can consider it solved?!
I agree :-).
>Remember, the question was, "Do we need to spend the effort making all
>of our programs support the use of - to denote std{in,out}?"
Not all, only the following (fairly large) subset:
- ones which historically supported '-'
- ones which should be portable to systems that don't support /dev/stdin.
Bruce
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