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To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:47:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: devfs and /dev/fd/3 
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In message <20030604170809.GA56245@stack.nl>, Marc Olzheim writes:
>On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:44:28PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
>> MO>( echo foo | tee /dev/fd/3 | tr f F ) 3>&1
>> MO>
>> MO>It should produce both "foo" and "Foo"
>> 
>> mount -tfdescfs fdesc /dev/fd
>> 
>> but your example doesn't work even then (although it gives no error).
>> Don't know why.
>
>Hmm, it does work for me here now. Thanks a lot guys !
>
>uname -a:
>FreeBSD turtle.stack.nl 5.1-BETA FreeBSD 5.1-BETA #10: Mon May 12 15:30:54 CEST 2003 jilles@turtle.stack.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TURTLE  i386
>
>Btw. Why isn't this default mounted together with devfs in /etc/rc.d ?
>Is it not yet stable enough ?

There is no reason not to, but there seems, on the other hand, to
not be enough reason to do so either.

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