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From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
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Subject: Re: open() and EOFError
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:40:21 +0300
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Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:

> I once knew a guy who linked /dev/tty.c to /dev/tty, then he could do 
> "cc /dev/tty.c" and type a C program in to the compiler from the 
> terminal.

I thought some old C compilers took input from stdin without that kind
of trickery? Oh, looks like modern gcc does it too, as long as the
language is specified with -x.