In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Simon 'portlint
' Schubert" writes:
>> These files, conventionally called /dev/fd/0, /dev/fd/1, /dev/fd/2,
>> and so on, refer to files accessible through file descriptors. If file
>> descriptor n is open, these two system calls have the same effect:
>> fd = open("/dev/fd/n",mode);
>> fd = dup(n);
>
>i read that only concerning *open* fds. (you can't dup a closed
>[non-existant] fd).
>
>furthermore i think there was a patch floating around addressing exactly
>this issue. perhaps it was even committed (i'm too lazy to search for
>it). solution was to test in configure for additional fds accessible
>from /dev/fd/* and build without that feature if not.
Well, as far as I know we don't need a patch, we just need to mount
fdescfs then.
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