bug: udev does not create /dev/fd pseudo directory

[sofar]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:00:34 -0500, Dennis Veatch <dveatch at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:43, sofar wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:34:27 -0500, Dennis Veatch <dveatch at woh.rr.com>
> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 19 January 2006 15:03, Dennis Veatch wrote:
>> >> On Thursday 19 January 2006 14:19, Moritz Heiber wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:01:46 +0000
>> >> >
>> >> > sofar <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>> >> > > Can this symlink be added to udev somehow?
>> >> >
>> >> > udev.rules one-liner.
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards,
>> >> >
>> >> > Moritz
>> >>
>> >> What should the MODE and GROUP be?
>> >
>> > Would something like this be right? :
>> >
>> > KERNEL=="self/fd[0-2]*", NAME="proc/%n", SYMLINK+="%k", MODE="0600"
>>
>> no
>>
>> you should *ONLY* symlink /proc/self/fd to /dev/fd
>>
>> don't symlink anything else, the kernel (procfs) takes care of
> everything
>> under /proc/fd.
>>
>> no clue about udev syntax - I need help for that.
>>
>> Auke
>>
>>
> 
> Well then if I understand right, this should do the trick (I think);
> 
> KERNEL=="/proc/self/fd[0-2]*", NAME="/dev/%n", SYMLINK+="%k",
> MODE="1777"

????

/proc/self/fd is a DIRECTORY that always exists, there is no fd0, fd1, fd2 etc. ONLY fd

> So to me my own lab rat. Poked that line in my udev rules (ouch!) and reboot.
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> Hey I have a "self" in /proc now!

that already existed before you dumbass! it is a reference to $$ or the /proc/nnn directory of the "current" process!

Auke