On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:45:00PM -0600, Dan Connolly wrote: > How wide is the convention that /dev/stdin is stdin? > Wide enough for the IETF to reserve file:/dev/stdin for standard input? There is no reason why you couldn't use file:///dev/stdin on a system that uses /dev/stdin or file:///foo/bar on a system that uses /foo/bar. There is no reason for it to be reserved. As your application is concerned, it's just a regular (albeit readonly) file. Having said all of that, I'm not sure that STDIN is universally implemented on the filesystem. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. StallmanReceived on Thursday, 17 January 2008 02:14:48 GMT
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