Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:39:13 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/fd/3 Message-ID: <417C04E1.2040207@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041024184649.85623G-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041024184649.85623G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > >>I have a program that needs to write to file descriptor 3 via /dev/fd/3. >> But FreeBSD-5.3 doesn't let me do that, since only fd/0-2 exist. How >>do I do this? "man fd" didn't help me. > > > You can mount fdescfs on top of /dev/fd using the following command as > root: > > mount -t fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd > Thanks - it works. How about adding fdescfs(5) to the "SEE ALSO" section of "man fd"? Stephen
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