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authorThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2007-12-16 01:05:20 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2007-12-16 01:05:20 +0100
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]
+
+The magic translator provides /dev/fd.
+
+ $ showtrans /dev/fd
+ /hurd/magic --directory fd
+
+The /dev/fd directory holds the open file descriptors for your current process. You can't see them with \`ls -l /dev/fd/' but you can see them individually like this:
+
+ $ ls -l /dev/fd/0
+ crw--w---- 1 bing tty 0, 0 Nov 19 18:00 /dev/fd/0