[ECOS] Re: eCos configuration question

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2007-06-01, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:

>>>>>   ecosconfig import - ;# i.e. import 'Tcl lines' = CDLs from stdin
>>>> I once hacked my ecosconfig to add that feature, but I no longer use
>>>> it since
>>>>
>>>>    ecosconfig import /dev/stdin
>>>>
>>>> works just as well (on the host platforms I care about).
>>> That really works! Thanks for your great TIP!
>> 
>> The more general case is to use /proc/self/fd/N (where N is the
>> file descriptor number).  If you look, /dev/stdin is just an
>> indirect symlink to /proc/self/fd/0
>
> Perhaps on Linux, but on other *nix systems, /dev/stdin may
> not be implemented this way.

There are other *nix systems?

;)

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