Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:37:06 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <56645.968935026@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:53:42 BST." <20000914115342.I77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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In message <20000914115342.I77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>, Ben Smithurs
t writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> I must admit that I think in general that /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd
>> is bogus. It looks like something which happened "because we can" more
>> than something which has a legitimate need.
>
>You think adding a hack to every program to support "-" to mean
>stdout/stdin is better?
The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge
of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3).
At the same time I would really love if we implemented "|.*" to mean
"do an popen(3)" instead.
But of course, this is bikeshed material...
>> If anything I would propose we ditch it...
>
>And break loads of scripts at the same time?
I would argue that the programs and the scripts that call them are
already broken, but hey...
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