- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:06:02 +0000
- To: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- CC: "'Dan Connolly'" <connolly@w3.org>, uri@w3.org
Mike Schinkel wrote: >> How wide is the convention that /dev/stdin is stdin? >> Wide enough for the IETF to reserve file:/dev/stdin for >> standard input? > > Not sure if this matters, but a Windows machine doesn't have a clue what > /dev/stdin means. > Note file:/dev/stdin does in fact not conform with the file uri scheme specification; it should be written file:///dev/stdin It will likely work immediately with a range of Unices (the 0 line implementation!) For some OSes (including some Unices), the implementation of the file: scheme would need modification. A std: scheme with std:in, would not work in any OS, but a dispatcher written in a particular implementation language is likely to be very easy to port (e.g. simple recompile) from one OS to another, since the underlying concepts of stdin stdout and stderr are supported by most programming languages that might be used for writing such a dispatcher. Jeremy
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