> Recently I saw a tweet where someone mentioned that you can include /dev/stdin in C code compiled with gcc. This is, to say the very least, surprising.
Why is this surprising? Do programmers not read books anymore? Almost, any decent C programming book explains that #include reads the specified file and substitutes itself with the content of that file. Any Unix/Linux book explains that /dev/stdin is a special device file that represents the standard input.
Why is this surprising? Do programmers not read books anymore? Almost, any decent C programming book explains that #include reads the specified file and substitutes itself with the content of that file. Any Unix/Linux book explains that /dev/stdin is a special device file that represents the standard input.