Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Withro
w writes:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>:- The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge of
>:- "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3). 
>
>Suppose I *want* a filename called "-"?  My tough luck, huh?

./-

Very few programs understand the filename "-" unless it is special
cased to mean stdin/stdout

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