how to create /dev/fd/# ?

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Sun Nov 14 21:51:45 GMT 2004


On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:59:24 +0300, "Eugene M. Minkovskii"
<emin at mccme.ru> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:37:44PM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen
> wrote:" 
> " [Eugene M. Minkovskii, 2004-11-14]
> " >  Who can tell me: why I can't create /dev/fd/3 (evenly under
> " >  root!), and what shell I do for create this?
> " 
> " see fdescfs(5)
> 
> Ok, I was reading this, and what? What shell I do in the bash?


Add the following to /etc/fstab:

fdescfs         /dev/fd     fdescfs rw      0   0

Then do "mount fdescfs" or "mount /dev/fd".

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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