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Re: /dev/stdin in Cygwin
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Karthik Raghunathan <t-kraghu at microsoft dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 06:11:23 -0600
- Subject: Re: /dev/stdin in Cygwin
- References: <0F8BD6A829E0F249847A878B9AF5607C45332657A5@AA-EXMSG-C404.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the list.
According to Karthik Raghunathan on 5/23/2007 4:28 AM:
> /I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making/
>
> /symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical/
>
> //dev directory./
>
> Dear Eric,
>
> I am a beginner in using Cygwin and i got this error message âcannot
> open /dev/stdinâ on trying to run some application on Cygwin. I would be
> thankful if you could explain in a bit more detail about how to create
> the /dev/std* files on Cygwin.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
And if someone is motivated enough, there has been talk of adding this to
a postinstall script so that it happens automatically as part of
installing cygwin.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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