runc/runtime-linux.md

Linux Runtime

File descriptors

By default, only the stdin, stdout and stderr file descriptors are kept open for the application by the runtime. The runtime MAY pass additional file descriptors to the application to support features such as socket activation. Some of the file descriptors MAY be redirected to /dev/null even though they are open.

Dev symbolic links

After the container has /proc mounted, the following standard symlinks MUST be setup within /dev/ for the IO.

Source	Destination
/proc/self/fd	/dev/fd
/proc/self/fd/0	/dev/stdin
/proc/self/fd/1	/dev/stdout
/proc/self/fd/2	/dev/stderr