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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:35:50 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Subject: Re: Who changed /proc/<pid>/ in 2.6.0-test5-bk9?
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Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> How about use /proc/self/task/self/fd/%d if /proc/self/task/self
> exists, /proc/self/fd/%d otherwise ?

/dev/stdin is a symbolic link to /proc/self/fd/0.

open("/dev/stdin", O_RDONLY) should always work, if descriptor 0 is readable.

Maybe you're saying /dev/stdin should be changed to link to
/proc/self/task/self/fd/0?

-- Jamie