From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 17:18:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 943A716A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:18:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FFC43D55 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:18:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (12-216-240-169.client.mchsi.com[12.216.240.169]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20041024171856m9200k07boe>; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:18:56 +0000 Message-ID: <417BE400.8090506@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:18:56 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: /dev/fd/3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:18:57 -0000 I have a program that needs to write to file descriptor 3 via /dev/fd/3. But FreeBSD-5.3 doesn't let me do that, since only fd/0-2 exist. How do I do this? "man fd" didn't help me. Stephen