Re: /dev/fd/3
From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 10/24/04
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:44:39 +0100 (BST) To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >>I have a program that needs to write to file descriptor 3 via /dev/fd/3.
> >> But FreeBSD-5.3 doesn't let me do that, since only fd/0-2 exist. How
> >>do I do this? "man fd" didn't help me.
> >
> >
> > You can mount fdescfs on top of /dev/fd using the following command as
> > root:
> >
> > mount -t fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd
>
> Thanks - it works.
>
> How about adding fdescfs(5) to the "SEE ALSO" section of "man fd"?
Sounds good -- I've added a cross reference and a note on why it might be
useful to fd.4 in CVS HEAD. I'll merge to RELENG_5 once the 5.3 code
freeze is lifted.
Thanks,
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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