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SubjectRe: /dev/one - why not /dev/repeat?
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Steve VanDevender wrote:

> thunder7@xs4all.nl writes:
> > Are there advantages in having something like /dev/repeat?
> >
> > echo -n "echo this" > /dev/repeat
> >
> > cat /dev/repeat
> > echo thisecho thisecho thisecho this
>
> No. Stop it, all of you. There is absolutely no reason to make
> a kernel device for this.

Actually there is - it's about the simplest read/write device driver you
can write and is a good introduction.

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