Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:21:14 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, 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: <56995.968941274@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:43:04 EDT." <200009141243.IAA18449@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM>
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In message <200009141243.IAA18449@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM>, Robert Withro w writes: > >phk@critter.freebsd.dk said: >:- The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge of >:- "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3). > >Suppose I *want* a filename called "-"? My tough luck, huh? ./- Very few programs understand the filename "-" unless it is special cased to mean stdin/stdout -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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