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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

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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    
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