MirBSD manpage: mount_fdesc(8)

MOUNT_FDESC(8)           BSD System Manager's Manual            MOUNT_FDESC(8)

NAME

     mount_fdesc - mount the file-descriptor filesystem

SYNOPSIS

     mount_fdesc [-o options] fdesc mount_point

DESCRIPTION

     The mount_fdesc command attaches an instance of the per-process file
     descriptor namespace to the global filesystem namespace. The conventional
     mount point is /dev and the filesystem should be union mounted in order
     to augment, rather than replace, the existing entries in /dev. This com-
     mand is invoked by mount(8) when using the syntax

         mount [options] -t fdesc fdesc mount_point

     This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time.

     The options are as follows:

     -o options
             Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separat-
             ed string of options. See the mount(8) man page for possible op-
             tions and their meanings.

     The contents of the mount point are fd, stderr, stdin, stdout and tty.

     fd is a directory whose contents appear as a list of numbered files which
     correspond to the open files of the process reading the directory. The
     files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be
     accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is open and the
     mode the file is being opened with is a subset of the mode of the exist-
     ing descriptor, the call:

           fd = open("/dev/fd/0", mode);

     and the call:

           fd = fcntl(0, F_DUPFD, 0);

     are equivalent.

     The files /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr appear as symlinks to
     the relevant entry in the /dev/fd sub-directory. Opening them is
     equivalent to the following calls:

           fd = fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
           fd = fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
           fd = fcntl(STDERR_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);

     Flags to the open(2) call other than O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY and O_RDWR are
     ignored.

     The /dev/tty entry is an indirect reference to the current process's con-
     trolling terminal. It appears as a named pipe (FIFO) but behaves in ex-
     actly the same way as the real controlling terminal device.

FILES

     /dev/fd/#
     /dev/stdin
     /dev/stdout
     /dev/stderr
     /dev/tty

SEE ALSO

     mount(2), tty(4), fstab(5), mount(8), umount(8)

HISTORY

     The mount_fdesc utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

CAVEATS

     This filesystem may not be NFS-exported.

MirBSD #10-current              March 27, 1994                               1