Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:24:40 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: Union mount of fdesc on top of /dev Message-ID: <00Apr12.082443est.115225@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200004052123.OAA05958@usr07.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:52:00AM %2B1000 References: <20000404193257.N27486@holly.calldei.com> <200004052123.OAA05958@usr07.primenet.com>
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:52:00AM +1000, Terry Lambert wrote:
>I really don't know what /dev/std* is for;
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>used in the "open" call -- that's what /dev/fd/* is for).
Personally, I find std{in,out,err} more descriptive than /dev/fd/{0,1,2}.
As I understand it, POSIX specifes the names rather than the numbers.
>One drawback, though, is that the ideal place to do something like
>this is by adding a "handler" for a portion of the devfs namespace
>(like the /dev/pty/ handler would want to be),
Isn't this a job for portals? (Or have I misunderstood their use).
Peter
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