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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 8th Edition and /dev/stdio
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:41:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgzCkdi=+WZa=AL+Uuke-9www9Bu57bYe7FWV717Q-QxCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.2004220534560.35252@frieza.hoshinet.org>

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Not certain, but it's possible /dev/stdin went in first, and /dev/fd/*
generalized it.

-rob


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:35 PM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > Other mail in the thread credits Tom Duff with /dev/fd ... In any case,
> > /dev/stdin et al was a great idea.
>
> I make *heavy* use of /dev/stdin and /dev/stdout on Linux. Very useful
> concept.
>
> -uso.
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-22  9:42 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
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 [this message]

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