[erlang-questions] input too fast

[David King]

> Fredrik Svahn <fredrik.svahn@REDACTED> writes:
>> While I agree that "<stdin>" seems to be a perfectly valid  
>> (although not >recommended) filename in all(?) unix systems I do  
>> not think that using an atom will >help.
> Why not use a Unix convention, "/dev/stdin" and "/dev/stdout"?

/dev/std{in,out} do not exist on all unices. On some, it's /dev/fd/ 
[01], and on some there isn't a device node for it.