From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 15 8:54:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C23837B423; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA45491; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:54:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:54:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Julian Elischer Cc: Chris Costello , hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! In-Reply-To: <39C0885A.41C67EA6@elischer.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: > I've never thought of a use for fdescfs... I used /dev/fd/1 just yesterday for a third-party precompiled binary that insists on outputting to a file specified on the command line. Slapping in /dev/fd/1 lets me stuff the command in a pipe chain. Same goes for /dev/fd/0. Other file descriptors, I'm less sure about :-) Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message