fdescfs/devfs

[Vlad GALU]

On 8/23/06, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <ad79ad6b0608222329j5d43dae9h9e1408926bd9cf6c at mail.gmail.com>, "Vlad
>  GALU" writes:
>
> >     Is it just a wrong impression on my side, or devfs really
> >supersedes fdescfs ? I've been using /dev/fd/* for a while having the
> >impression I had fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd, and I hadn't. I didn't
> >see any differences whatsoever in terms of usage.
>
> It's not really devfs, it's kern_descrip.c and it only implements
> /dev/fd[0-2] and the /dev/std{in,out,err} aliases.

   Thanks. I wrote a small test program that opened a socket and
indeed it didn't show up in /dev/fd/. I was just about to return this
info to the list.

>
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