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diff --git a/hurd/translator/magic.mdwn b/hurd/translator/magic.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..84bacdfb --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/magic.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!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 |