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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:08:59 -0500
From: Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Merging fdescfs.
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On Thursday, October 11, 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
> What are the changes that are visible to the user in the new fdescfs
> versus the old one?

   The most obvious is the fact that it no longer gets
union-mounted on /dev, it's mounted directly on /dev/fd:

# df .
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
fdesc               1        1        0   100%    /dev/fd
# ls -l
total 0
crw-------  1 chris  tty      5,   0 Oct 11 16:59 0
crw-------  1 chris  tty      5,   0 Oct 11 16:59 1
crw-------  1 chris  tty      5,   0 Oct 11 16:59 2
d---------  1 root   wheel       512 Oct 11 16:56 3
d---------  1 root   wheel       512 Oct 11 16:56 4
d---------  1 root   wheel       512 Oct 11 16:56 5

   This also means that there are no longer any `tty', `stdin' or
`stdout' nodes in fdescfs.

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| Chris Costello    | What this country needs            |
| chris@FreeBSD.org | is a good five-cent microcomputer. |
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