Re: Diskless export/import - here's a method to do so

From: Stephan Bressler <sbresslerx_no_spam_at_arcor.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:53:34 +0100
Message-ID: <c0cu28$k6g$1@news.mch.sbs.de>

> Doesn't work on AIX 4.3 with sh or ksh. In fact the only os/shell
> combination I've gotten it to work on is cygwin/bash. Is that a
> requirement or am I doing something wrong?
>
> ksh> echo hello >/dev/fd/1
> A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
> ksh: /dev/fd/1: 0403-005 Cannot create the specified file.
>
> bash> echo hello >/dev/fd/1
> hello

Hi,
/dev/fd (also known as filedescriptor (virtual) filesystem) was introduced with unix SVR4 (if I remember right). No idea what your AIX is based on.

If it's available, it should work the same way to any program, just like /dev/null is the same to all programs.

Stephan Received on Wed Feb 11 2004 - 03:53:34 CST