From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 14 11:34:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CBB37B422 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13ZcvX-0006vO-00; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:35:59 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA25231; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:35:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:35:58 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <20000914183558.K77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg> <56076.968924938@critter> <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman wrote: > [/dev/stdin] also helps when bogus programs refuse to read from the > standard input. Or if you want to read more than one file, one of which is standard input. e.g. gzip -dc oldlogs.*.gz | cat /dev/stdin todays-log | log-analyzer ... Of course that will work with "-" instead of "/dev/stdin" but I personally think it's the "-" hack to mean stdin/stdout which should be abolished, not /dev/std{in,out,err}. No doubt others will disagree. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message