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Subject: Re: fdescfs/devfs 
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In message <ad79ad6b0608222329j5d43dae9h9e1408926bd9cf6c@mail.gmail.com>, "Vlad
 GALU" writes:

>     Is it just a wrong impression on my side, or devfs really
>supersedes fdescfs ? I've been using /dev/fd/* for a while having the
>impression I had fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd, and I hadn't. I didn't
>see any differences whatsoever in terms of usage.

It's not really devfs, it's kern_descrip.c and it only implements
/dev/fd[0-2] and the /dev/std{in,out,err} aliases.

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