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To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:45:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: devfs and /dev/fd/3 
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In message <20030604133019.GA50874@stack.nl>, Marc Olzheim writes:
>Hi.
>
>I've seen the question once before, but it was not answered (on-list ?),
>so now that I run in on it, I'd like to know what to do:
>
>On FreeBSD 4.x, without devfs, the following worked:
>( echo foo | tee /dev/fd/3 | tr f F ) 3>&1
>
>It should produce both "foo" and "Foo"
>
>FreeBSD 5 with devfs, however, does not create a /dev/fd/3 upon opening
>filedescriptor 3 by the shell, so there's no device to write to...
>
>How can I fix or circumvent this, aside from mounting a ufs partition
>with mknod-ed files over /dev/fd ?

 
mount fdescfs

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