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| author | rwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-10-24 19:44:23 +0000 |
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| committer | rwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-10-24 19:44:23 +0000 |
| commit | 27296db6a7b0487c98e7e27a7765cf3d19bdf963 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a0237bed540968ac75ce5f637fcc758881fd755 /share | |
| parent | a18af33877fa2d0d101b28b41dc3e19f16cbde0c (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-27296db6a7b0487c98e7e27a7765cf3d19bdf963.zip FreeBSD-src-27296db6a7b0487c98e7e27a7765cf3d19bdf963.tar.gz | |
Mention fdescfs(5) and why it might be useful.
MFC after: 1 week
Suggested by: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math dot missouri dot edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/fd.4 | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/fd.4 b/share/man/man4/fd.4 index 3b76b7a..99a0531 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/fd.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/fd.4 @@ -81,6 +81,17 @@ call other than and .Dv O_RDWR are ignored. +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +By default, +.Pa /dev/fd +is provided by +.Xr devfs 5 , +which provides nodes for the first three file descriptors. +Some sites may require nodes for additional file descriptors; these can be +made available by mounting +.Xr fdescfs 5 +on +.Pa /dev/fd . .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /dev/stderr -compact .It Pa /dev/fd/# @@ -89,4 +100,6 @@ are ignored. .It Pa /dev/stderr .El .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr tty 4 +.Xr tty 4 , +.Xr devfs 5 , +.Xr fdescfs 5 |
