[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="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 [[unix/file_descriptor]]s 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