[TUHS] 8th Edition and /dev/stdio

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Other mail in the thread credits Tom Duff with /dev/fd ... In any case, 
/dev/stdin et al was a great idea.

Kudos.

Arnold

Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think dmr put them in, at my suggestion. I was bothered by the
> inconsistent use of '-' as a name for standard input. Giving stdin a real
> name meant we had a consistent mechanism.
>
> 8th edition sounds right.
>
> -rob
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:33 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> > Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-tuhs at employees.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:28:53AM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > > > See if there are man pages for /dev/fd/XXX.  IIRC /dev/stdin was
> > > > a symlink to /dev/fd/0, /dev/stdout to /dev/fd/1, /dev/stderr to
> > /dev/fd/2,
> > > > and, as a really nice generalization, /dev/tty to /dev/fd/4.  For the
> > > > latter, init(1) simply dup'ed the opened tty file descriptor one more
> > > > time before exec-ing login.
> > >
> > > So what happened to /dev/fd/3 ?
> > >
> > > DF
> >
> > My bad. I meant /dev/fd/3.  What was cute was that /dev/tty was
> > no longer a special device of it's own, but just another inherited
> > open file descriptor.
> >
> > Sadly, that generalization never made it out into other *nix systems.
> >
> > Arnold
> >