On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >>I have a program that needs to write to file descriptor 3 via /dev/fd/3. > >> But FreeBSD-5.3 doesn't let me do that, since only fd/0-2 exist. How > >>do I do this? "man fd" didn't help me. > > > > > > You can mount fdescfs on top of /dev/fd using the following command as > > root: > > > > mount -t fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd > > Thanks - it works. > > How about adding fdescfs(5) to the "SEE ALSO" section of "man fd"?
Sounds good -- I've added a cross reference and a note on why it might be useful to fd.4 in CVS HEAD. I'll merge to RELENG_5 once the 5.3 code freeze is lifted. Thanks, Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"