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Bash is not even pretending such special files exist: /dev/tcp/somewhere is only an elegant syntactic shortcut for requesting a telnet-like network connected pi
by HelloNurse 6y ago
Bash is not even pretending such special files exist: /dev/tcp/somewhere is only an elegant syntactic shortcut for requesting a telnet-like network connected pipe in a context in which a filename is required.
For the child process, it's just a file descriptor.
- rvense 6y agoI don't think it's elegant at all. Magically treating special strings in this manner seems like a violation of "everything is a file".
- sfuller808 6y agoplan9 awaits you