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Old 28th March 2009
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Default problem passing /dev/fd/n to programs

I have a perl script that needs to invoke an editor on a temporary file, which is created with File::Temp::tempfile(). What I would like to do, is have it check if there is an accessible /dev/fd or /proc/$$/fd directory on the system: and if so pass the file descriptor to the editor through the file system instead of using the file name; if there is no such directory, bite the bullet and use the filename. I've tried cat, ed, vi, and vim but none seem to work via "/dev/fd/".fileno($fh) here. Then I wrote a small C program that opens a test file, clears the close on exec flag, concatenates the editor, /dev/fd, and the fileno() into a single string, passes it on to system(). For quick testing I set the editor to use as "cat".


On FreeBSD 7, I get '/dev/fd/3: No such file or directory' when attempting to open the file, on OpenBSD 4.4 I get successful access to the temporary file through /dev/fd/.fileno; but on FreeBSD it refuses!


I might very well be an idiot, but I don't get it. Does FreeBSD not create /dev/fd/n's greater then the 0,1,2 std{out,in,err} files for a program by default or something?



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I think I've found the problemo: fd(4) states that devfs only maintains the standard I/O descriptors by default, and points to fdescfs (5).

So that provides a solution to my problem, if not a totally portable one :-/
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Hmm, if I mount an fdescfs on /dev/fd, then flick-off the close on exec flag & exec the program on /dev/fd/N, it works.... but the file descriptor is an empty file rather then the content of my temporary file.... which was written out through the open file handle.

Even worse, I can !cat /tmp/thetempfile in ed, and see the content it is supposed to have from opening /dev/fd/N lol.
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