/dev/stdin in Cygwin

[Eric Blake]

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http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the list.

According to Karthik Raghunathan on 5/23/2007 4:28 AM:
> /I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making/
> 
> /symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical/
> 
> //dev directory./
> 
> Dear Eric,
> 
> I am a beginner in using Cygwin and i got this error message “cannot
> open /dev/stdin” on trying to run some application on Cygwin. I would be
> thankful if you could explain in a bit more detail about how to create
> the /dev/std* files on Cygwin.

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

And if someone is motivated enough, there has been talk of adding this to
a postinstall script so that it happens automatically as part of
installing cygwin.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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