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From: chet@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: File system name space
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Submitted-by: chet@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)

Arnold Robbins writes:

>Anyway, since we're discussing what is and isn't in the POSIX name space,
>I'd like to put in a plug for the /dev/fd directory.

I agree; it makes things like 

	join <(prog1) <(prog2) > joined-output-of-progs-1-and-2

possible.

>There's lot of existing practice on this one; it originated in V8, circa
>1984 or earlier, and PD versions for various, more popular, Unix incarnations
>have been around for some time as well.

Keith Bostic has stated that /dev/fd will be in the next release of BSD;
for all I know, it might already be in 4.3-reno.

Chet
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