Re: No such device or address when opening /dev/fd/<x> on opened /dev/tcp socket

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/5/21 3:14 PM, Oğuz wrote:
> 5 Nisan 2021 Pazartesi tarihinde Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> yazdı:
>
>     There's no guarantee that file descriptors opened with socket(2) show up in
>     /dev/fd. Bash doesn't emulate /dev/fd if the system provides it, so it's up
>     to the OS on those systems whether they do or not.
>
>     It doesn't generate that error on macOS, for instance, which has /dev/fd.
>
>
> I can reproduce the error, but it is coming from `tee', which tries to open 
> `/dev/fd/??' as a regular file whereas it is a socket, and gets an ENXIO error.

That's what I mean. What happens on a system that implements /dev/fd and N
in /dev/fd/N is a valid descriptor? There are varying answers.

The simplest /dev/fd drivers just dup the file descriptor passed as an
argument. There are progressively more complex implementations. It's
not guaranteed they treat descriptors returned by socket(2) the same as
those returned by open(2), even to whether they show up in /dev/fd at all.

If you don't have /dev/fd, all bets are off, of course, but then I'd guess
the error would be ENOENT.

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