From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Sep 10 12:30:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A43637B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0EFD43E4A for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA61471; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8AJL7J34317; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200209101921.g8AJL7J34317@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: /dev/stdout behavior In-Reply-To: "from Nate Lawson at Sep 10, 2002 10:52:58 am" To: Nate Lawson Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message