Re: /dev/stderr gets unlinked 8]

[Joshua Hudson]

On 3/18/06, Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
They're from BSD (where they are real devices, with a major & minor number).
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