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SubjectRe: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]
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linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>> If not, you could write an LSM that prohibits unlinking /dev/stderr.

> That symlink isn't even used -- at least by any sane program!
> I don't have a clue why these things were created and what they
> were for. The objects stdin, stdout, and stderr, are 'C' runtime
> library pointers to opaque types associated with the file descriptors,
> STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, and STDERR_FILENO. The presence of
> these bogus sym-links in /dev represent some kind of obfuscation
> and have no value except to confuse (or identify a RedHat distribution).

Think about portable shell scripts. I remember /dev/std* longer than /proc.
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verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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