Subject: Re: echo foo > /dev/stdout
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/21/2007 19:06:50
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"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> What shell do you use? As I understand it, /dev/stdout is only
> available on NetBSD if you mount fdesc (see mount_fdesc(8)). But ksh
> fakes it.
Yes, I do use ksh. But I had assumed that the existence of /dev/stdout
as a character device would have been sufficient.
I also noticed that under FreeBSD /bin/sh this works, but there I do
happen to have devfs mounted.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Interesting, though, that ksh fakes it.
-Jan
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