Subject: Re: Thanks for FDESC
To: None <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/04/1995 11:22:54
>> Though I'm not sure where I am supposed to mount [the file desc file
>> system].
> You mount it on /dev/fd and "ln -s /dev/fd/0 /dev/stdin" etc.
> At least this is the way SysVR4 did it. This was the first place I
> saw a file descriptor file system (it was a beta SysVR4 ~1990.)
No, ken you use the "-o union" to merge FDESC into /dev:
mount_fdesc -o union fdesc /dev
in /etc/fstab:
fdesc /dev fdesc rw,union