Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:33:55 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, 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: <v04210101b5e6e4bf17ee@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <56076.968924938@critter> References: <56076.968924938@critter>
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At 11:48 AM +0200 9/14/00, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>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...
I think it is a reasonable feature to have. It probably won't
be useful all that often, but it could be very useful in some
situations. I know I've hit situations where I wished I could
do something like this, but I couldn't tell you an example
right this minute.
So, I wouldn't want to see fdesfs ditched, but on the other
hand I don't have any clue how to address the loose ends that
Chris mentioned in his initial message. :-)
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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