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Re: /dev/udp|tcp/host/port and symbolic links
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: /dev/udp|tcp/host/port and symbolic links |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 11:41:36 +0200 |
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uwe-klein@foni.net (Uwe Klein) writes:
|> Hi,
|>
|> being able to redirect output to /dev/<proto>/<host>/<port>
|> is very usefull ( Thanks for the feature !)
|> I use this feature together with MultiCast Adresses
|> to send cmds and data to multiple processes on a set of hosts.
|>
|> usage like this is ok:
|>
|> echo hello >/dev/udp/224.1.0.0/7773
|>
|> But i could not refrain from trying:
|>
|> ln -s /dev/udp/224.1.0.0/7773 bclog
|> echo hello >bclog
|>
|> this breaks with
|>
|> bash: bclog: Not a directory
|>
|> I don't realy know at which point the decision
|> is made concerning regular file / some bash special file
|> but it would be nice having softlinks work seamlessly.
This is not possible. The file name is interpreted by bash, it does not
exist anywhere outside of bash.
Andreas.
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