On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > Historically the first three channels, 0, 1, and 2, were given names > > stdin, stdout, and stderr, respectively. Use of other file > > descriptors is not standardized, so to speak. > > So a person could use 3 and call it stmisc, for example?
Well, you needn't "call" it anything... just use it. In any case, if you're inventing your own, prepending its name with "std" seems to be a misnomer. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist (1564-1642) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
