From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 14 12:22:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224BC37B43E for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13ZeaC-0004yN-00; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:22:04 +0300 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13ZeaB-0000OD-00; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:22:03 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: John Baldwin Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:43:49 -0700 (PDT) . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:22:03 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200009141843.LAA83370@pike.osd.bsdi.com>you write: }How about the fact that the printing chapter in the Handbook uses /dev/fd/0 }in its example of setting up a print filter using ghostscript since gs }doesn't read from stdin by default or use '-' for that purpose. Hmmm?? } what about programs that were never meant to read from stdin, since, for example they like to seek ..., dvi2ps comes to mind. danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message