Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:42:31 +0300 From: "Vlad GALU" <dudu@dudu.ro> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdescfs/devfs Message-ID: <ad79ad6b0608230042w2158acfr11420cb89e5e7794@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <75690.1156318700@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <ad79ad6b0608222329j5d43dae9h9e1408926bd9cf6c@mail.gmail.com> <75690.1156318700@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 8/23/06, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <ad79ad6b0608222329j5d43dae9h9e1408926bd9cf6c@mail.gmail.com>, "Vlad
> GALU" writes:
>
> > Is it just a wrong impression on my side, or devfs really
> >supersedes fdescfs ? I've been using /dev/fd/* for a while having the
> >impression I had fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd, and I hadn't. I didn't
> >see any differences whatsoever in terms of usage.
>
> It's not really devfs, it's kern_descrip.c and it only implements
> /dev/fd[0-2] and the /dev/std{in,out,err} aliases.
Thanks. I wrote a small test program that opened a socket and
indeed it didn't show up in /dev/fd/. I was just about to return this
info to the list.
>
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