Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:48:58 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <56076.968924938@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:39:45 %2B0300." <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg>
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In message <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg>, Peter Pentchev writes
:
>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.
I must admit that I think in general that /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd
is bogus. It looks like something which happened "because we can" more
than something which has a legitimate need.
If anything I would propose we ditch it...
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