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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:47:41 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@mathisen.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fdescfs functional in 6.1?
Message-ID:  <20060729204741.GD15827@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060729061653.GM15569@main.mathisen.org>
References:  <20060729034359.GL15569@main.mathisen.org> <20060729041848.GC15827@dan.emsphone.com> <20060729061653.GM15569@main.mathisen.org>

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In the last episode (Jul 28), Jaye Mathisen said:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:18:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Jul 28), Jaye Mathisen said:
> > > s2# mount -t fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd
> > > s2# ls -l /dev/fd
> > > total 16
> > > crw--w----  1 root      tty         5,   1 Jul 28 18:01 0
> > > crw--w----  1 root      tty         5,   1 Jul 28 18:01 1
> > > crw--w----  1 root      tty         5,   1 Jul 28 18:01 2
> > > d-w-------  1 mailnull  mailnull       512 Jul 23 00:01 3
> > > d---------  1 root      wheel          512 Jul 25 03:25 4
> > > s2# umount /dev/fd
> > > 
> > > This thing is all over the map.. permissions changed, a *directory*
> > > for fd's 3 and 4?  
> > 
> > What do you expect ls to open to print a *directory* listing? :)
> > 
> > fd's 0, 1, and 2 are /dev/tty, and the permissions look fine.
> > 
> > fd 3 is your current directory (so I guess you're in some smtp-related
> > directory?), and fd 4 is the directory on the commandline (/dev/fd).
> >
>
> I guess I just expected it to print all character device entries for
> the file descriptors open by my process.

fdescfs prints all file desriptors open by your process, and displays
the correct info for each of them.
 
> Kind of like the old /dev/fd/1 /dev/fd/2 directories used to be under
> MAKEDEV...

Before devfs, /dev/fd was populated with dummy entries from 0 to 63 and
running ls on the directory had no correspondence with what your
process actually had open.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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