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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:39:45 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!
Message-ID:  <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg>
In-Reply-To: <39C0885A.41C67EA6@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:12:10AM -0700
References:  <200009140312.UAA22657@dei.calldei.com> <39C0885A.41C67EA6@elischer.org>

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:12:10AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> I've never thought of a use for fdescfs...

Well.. just a trivial example - imagine a program which takes a filename
as an argument; imagine yourself trying to pipe something into it -
passing /dev/fd/0 as a filename to process would do the trick.

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
.sith ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI


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