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Re: Symlinks under /proc
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 31 12:20, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > That's cool. Don't want to seem pushy, but how hard would it be to go
> > from the above to /dev/std{in,out,err}? Come to think of it, it may even
> > be as easy as "ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin", etc... That would
> > really help some apps, especially those that don't understand the "-"
> > filename argument.
>
> Why don't you just try it? Experiments are the bread and butter of
> progress, aren't they?
D'oh! After all this thought process, I looked on Linux, and that's
*exactly* how /dev/std* are implemented there. On the one hand, it shows
that my brain still works (surprisingly). On the other, it proves yet
again that a few months in the laboratory can usually save a few hours in
the library.
Igor (properly ashamed)
P.S. Can those symlinks be added via the same mechanism as the /proc/self
symlink, or should base-files do it?
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