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Re: Symlinks under /proc
On Jan 31 12:43, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 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.
Talking about experiments, did you also try it on Cygwin if it works or
did you just look on Linux how it's implemented there?
Corinna
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