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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/stdout behavior
Message-ID:  <200209101921.g8AJL7J34317@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209101051230.18643-100000@root.org> "from Nate Lawson at Sep 10, 2002 10:52:58 am"

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Nate Lawson writes:
> > 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 */

Sorry.. please replace '0' with '1' everywhere. The original question remains.

Thanks,
-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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