From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] 8th Edition and /dev/stdio
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:59:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EFF8FB-86D2-407A-87A7-B7A58D47C2D9@planet.nl> (raw)
Whilst spelunking in the V8 source code I came across this dozen lines:
http://chiselapp.com/user/pnr/repository/v8unix/artifact/2782d26fa2930724?ln=174,187
It implements the /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr devices (the variable ‘file_no’ in above code snippet is the constant 40, which is the major number of these devices). It would seem that this handful of lines could have been in Unix as early as 4th Edition — but they weren’t. Maybe it was not seen as useful.
As far as I can tell this bit of code originates in 8th Edition, with no earlier precursors. It does not seem to be in its man pages.
Who added this neat little innovation?
next reply other threads:[~2020-04-20 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-20 13:59 Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
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
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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