From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.clark.net ([168.143.0.10]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24628>; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 21:02:51 -0500 Received: from explorer2.clark.net (culliton@explorer2.clark.net [168.143.0.5]) by mail.clark.net (8.8.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id VAA04819 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 21:01:59 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Culliton Received: (from culliton@localhost) by explorer2.clark.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id VAA24056 for rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 21:02:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 21:02:32 -0500 Message-Id: <199703070202.VAA24056@explorer2.clark.net> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd I seem to have lost the message that someone recently sent about doing this, can someone give me a clue? Someone who saved the message? Someone who has done it? Whoever sent the original message? I swear I'm not hallucinating, although maybe it was on a different mailing list or news group... Failing that, what is the behaviour of /dev/fd? Is it a directory that "magically" contains numeric filenames corresponding to the reading processes open fd's like /proc/self/fd? Somebody had to understand this to implement the original code. ;-) BTW - Chris, where are the mailing list archives these days? Thanks! Tom