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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: ``file descriptor'' pseudo-device driver for 4.2BSD
Message-ID: <994@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 10:44:58 EDT
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The 8th Edition convention is to use /dev/fd/N, not /dev/fdN.  Some versions
of the Korn shell and the Eighth edition shell know about this naming convention;
they support things like

	diff (rsh a cat /etc/passwd) (rsh b cat /etc/passwd)
	
/dev/fd/0, /dev/fd/1, and /dev/fd/2 are also known as /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and
/dev/stderr.