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From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 8th Edition and /dev/stdio
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:17:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200420181713.GB51234@clarinet.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202004201428.03KESrgI032002@freefriends.org>

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:28:53AM -0600, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> See if there are man pages for /dev/fd/XXX.  IIRC /dev/stdin was
> a symlink to /dev/fd/0, /dev/stdout to /dev/fd/1, /dev/stderr to /dev/fd/2,
> and, as a really nice generalization, /dev/tty to /dev/fd/4.  For the
> latter, init(1) simply dup'ed the opened tty file descriptor one more
> time before exec-ing login.

So what happened to /dev/fd/3 ?

DF

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-20 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-20 13:59 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-20 14:28 ` arnold
2020-04-20 15:01   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-20 15:16     ` arnold
2020-04-20 17:58       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-04-20 18:17   ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2020-04-20 18:32     ` arnold
2020-04-22  9:21       ` Rob Pike
2020-04-22  9:33         ` arnold
2020-04-22  9:35           ` Steve Nickolas
2020-04-22  9:41             ` Rob Pike

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