``file descriptor'' pseudo-device driver for 4.2BSD
Steven Bellovin
smb at ulysses.UUCP
Sun Jun 23 00:44:58 AEST 1985
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.
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