On 9/25/17 7:49 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
>>     lrwx------ 1 lm lm 64 Sep 23 21:39 255 -> /dev/pts/8
> 
> What the heck is file descriptor 255?

It appears to be a file descriptor open to his controlling terminal.

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