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authorBen Asselstine <benasselstine@canada.com>2006-11-19 22:57:42 +0000
committerBen Asselstine <benasselstine@canada.com>2006-11-19 22:57:42 +0000
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+The magic translator provides /dev/fd.
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+ $ 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
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+-- [[Main/BenAsselstine]] - 19 Nov 2006