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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:30:12 -0400
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/stdout behavior
Message-ID:  <20020910203012.E40217@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <200209102200.SAA07377@thunderer.cnchost.com>; from bakul@bitblocks.com on Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:00:04PM -0700
References:  <200209102135.g8ALZXm34757@arch20m.dellroad.org> <200209102200.SAA07377@thunderer.cnchost.com>

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Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> writes:
> > > You need to fix your test program similarly and run it under
> > > Linux to see if the two OSes behave differently.
> > 
> > They do behave differently, even after adjusting '0' to '1':
> > 
> >     $ uname -a
> >     Linux foobar.packetdesign.com 2.4.9 #19 SMP Mon Oct 29 11:55:31 PST 2001 
> > i686 unknown
> >     $ ./flags
> >     O_NONBLOCK is not set
> 
> Hmmm... are /dev/stdin etc. part of Posix?  If not, linux can
> do what it wants.

POSIX specifies three special files: /dev/null, /dev/tty, and
/dev/console.  So the answer is no.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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