On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > Hi. > > I've seen the question once before, but it was not answered (on-list ?), > so now that I run in on it, I'd like to know what to do: > > On FreeBSD 4.x, without devfs, the following worked: > ( echo foo | tee /dev/fd/3 | tr f F ) 3>&1 > > It should produce both "foo" and "Foo" > > FreeBSD 5 with devfs, however, does not create a /dev/fd/3 upon opening > filedescriptor 3 by the shell, so there's no device to write to... > > How can I fix or circumvent this, aside from mounting a ufs partition > with mknod-ed files over /dev/fd ? You want fdescfs(5). -- David P. Reese Jr. daver_at_gomerbud.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It can be argued that returning a NULL pointer when asked to allocate zero bytes is a silly response to a silly question. -- FreeBSD manual page for malloc(3)Received on Wed Jun 04 2003 - 04:43:52 UTC
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