Subject: Re: Thanks for FDESC
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/04/1995 16:59:53
In article <9504041522.AA16346@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Kenneth Stailey  <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >> 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

...and it supplies it's own stdin/stdout/stderr entries, so you needn't
create links.