From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 14 2:45:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sentinel.office1.bg (sentinel.office1.bg [195.24.48.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B67A737B424 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 02:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 33108 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Sep 2000 09:39:45 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:39:45 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Julian Elischer Cc: Chris Costello , hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg> References: <200009140312.UAA22657@dei.calldei.com> <39C0885A.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39C0885A.41C67EA6@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 01:12:10AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-current" in the body of the message