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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:52:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/stdout behavior
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209101051230.18643-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209101656.g8AGuJ433605@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Is there an 'official' spec about how /dev/stdout is supposed to behave?
> 
> For example, if you use fcntl() to set flags on fd 0, and then open
> /dev/stdout, the new file descriptor you get back will have those
> same flags set. Run the program below to see an example. This is
> in agreement with the man page, which states that opening /dev/stdout
> is equivalent to dup(2)'ing fd 0.

> grep FILENO /usr/include/unistd.h
#define  STDIN_FILENO   0       /* standard input file descriptor */
#define STDOUT_FILENO   1       /* standard output file descriptor */
#define STDERR_FILENO   2       /* standard error file descriptor */

-Nate


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