fdescfs functional in 6.1?

[Jaye Mathisen]

I guess I just expected it to print all character device entries for the
file descriptors open by my process.

Kind of like the old /dev/fd/1 /dev/fd/2 directories used to be under MAKEDEV...

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:18:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 28), Jaye Mathisen said:
> > devfs is mounted, fdesc is unmounted:
> > 
> > s2# ls -l /dev/fd
> > total 0
> > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  250,   0 Jul 25 03:25 0
> > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  250,   1 Jul 25 03:28 1
> > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  250,   2 Jul 25 03:27 2
> > 
> > Looks just like I think it should.
> > 
> > Then:
> > s2# mount -t fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd
> > s2# ls -l /dev/fd
> > total 16
> > crw--w----  1 root      tty         5,   1 Jul 28 18:01 0
> > crw--w----  1 root      tty         5,   1 Jul 28 18:01 1
> > crw--w----  1 root      tty         5,   1 Jul 28 18:01 2
> > d-w-------  1 mailnull  mailnull       512 Jul 23 00:01 3
> > d---------  1 root      wheel          512 Jul 25 03:25 4
> > s2# umount /dev/fd
> > 
> > This thing is all over the map.. permissions changed, a *directory*
> > for fd's 3 and 4?  
> 
> What do you expect ls to open to print a *directory* listing? :)
> 
> fd's 0, 1, and 2 are /dev/tty, and the permissions look fine.
> 
> fd 3 is your current directory (so I guess you're in some smtp-related
> directory?), and fd 4 is the directory on the commandline (/dev/fd).
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
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