/dev/fd/3

[Robert Watson]

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
robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research