16 Apr
2008
16 Apr
'08
5:50 p.m.
On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Apr 16, 2008, at 13:23 , Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
You are insulting other Unixes. It works on Mac OS X, for example.
Not just that, but IIRC Linux was late to the party: Solaris got / dev/fd/ and /dev/stdin before Linux got /proc/$$/fd/ (which gets symlinked to /dev/fd/).
Yeah, among people who don't know much about UNIX, Linux gets a lot of credit for things it borrowed. But /dev/stdin isn't a standard feature of UNIX, if you count AIX for example as a UNIX platform. And apparently you can compile Haskell programs on AIX - thanks to the original poster in this thread's work with GHC - so there you go. Donn