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- Submitted-by: chet@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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- Arnold Robbins writes:
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- >Anyway, since we're discussing what is and isn't in the POSIX name space,
- >I'd like to put in a plug for the /dev/fd directory.
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- I agree; it makes things like
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- join <(prog1) <(prog2) > joined-output-of-progs-1-and-2
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- possible.
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- >There's lot of existing practice on this one; it originated in V8, circa
- >1984 or earlier, and PD versions for various, more popular, Unix incarnations
- >have been around for some time as well.
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- Keith Bostic has stated that /dev/fd will be in the next release of BSD;
- for all I know, it might already be in 4.3-reno.
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- Chet
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 2
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