[PATCH 0/2] Provide virtual /dev/fd and /dev/{stdin,stdout,stderr} symlinks

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi Johannes,

On Feb 21 14:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution (Bash's
> very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature).
> 
> For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossible) to generate these
> symbolic links in all circumstances where Git for Windows wants to use its
> close fork of the Cygwin runtime.
> 
> Therefore, let's just handle these symbolic links as implicit, virtual ones.
> 
> If there is appetite for it, I wonder whether we should do something similar
> for `/dev/shm` and `/dev/mqueue`? Are these even still used in Cygwin?

"still used"?  These are the dirs to store POSIX semaphors, message
queues and shared mem objects.  These have to be real on-disk dirs.

> Johannes Schindelin (2):
>   Implicitly support the /dev/fd symlink and friends
>   Regenerate devices.cc
> 
>  winsup/cygwin/Makefile.am        |    1 +
>  winsup/cygwin/devices.cc         | 1494 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>  winsup/cygwin/devices.h          |    3 +-
>  winsup/cygwin/devices.in         |    4 +
>  winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc          |    3 +
>  winsup/cygwin/fhandler.h         |   28 +
>  winsup/cygwin/fhandler_dev_fd.cc |   53 ++
>  7 files changed, 879 insertions(+), 707 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 winsup/cygwin/fhandler_dev_fd.cc

Pushed.


Thanks,
Corinna