> The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge > of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3). [.....] > I would argue that the programs and the scripts that call them are > already broken, but hey... So (just to add fuel to the mass opposition), do this without temporary files: count=$(program | tee /dev/stderr | wc -l) exit $count But then, you also said: > At the same time I would really love if we implemented "|.*" to mean > "do an popen(3)" instead. so I guess this could result in count=$(program |. cat | wc -l) exit $count (substitute correct "|.*" syntax - whatever that is). > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Peter Pentchev
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near ... Ben Smithurst
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs n... Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a dev... Peter van Dijk
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a dev... Robert Withrow
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to ... Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a dev... Mike Meyer
- Re: "!.*" [ was: Fdescfs u... patl
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a dev... Bjoern Fischer
- Re: superduperopen(3) (was: Fdescfs ... Brian Somers
- Re: superduperopen(3) (was: Fde... Gerhard Sittig
- Re: superduperopen(3) (was: Fde... Peter van Dijk
- Re: superduperopen(3) (was: Fde... Gerhard Sittig
- RE: superduperopen(3) (was: Fde... Tony Johnson
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs n... Adrian Filipi-Martin
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a dev... Bruce Evans
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to ... Adrian Filipi-Martin
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near ... Frank Mayhar
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near ... Garrett Wollman
- Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs n... Ben Smithurst