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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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