problems with devfs amd /dev/fd/

Jose M Rodriguez josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Tue Jan 4 02:54:29 PST 2005


Hi,

trying to import foomatic-rip, I found great changes under /dev/fd/ 
going from RELENG_4 to RELENG_5.

Seems that /dev/fd/3 is used by several pipe construct like foomatic-rip 
to get a free backwards error channel.

Digging a bit, I found that now, I need mount fdescfs to get this.  I 
think this is not well documented in release notes.

Also, seems that support /dev/fd/3 in devfs may be a good idea.  Add a 
sysctl to control how many /dev/fd/n devfs create will be even better.

--
  josemi



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