Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:15:50 +0100 | From | Johnny Teveßen <> | Subject | [OFFTOPIC] Reading empty file (was: Re: /dev/full) |
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Quoting Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl):
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johnny_Teve=DFen?= <j.tevessen@gmx.net> said:
mmh.. nice. 8)
> > Well, that's actually what I use it for: To have a "file" that gives you > > 0 bytes and then EOF when read from. > > And /dev/null?
/dev/full sounded more logical to me, so I tried this one first. It worked. Reading from /dev/null sounds.. more strange.
johnny -- Trust no-one.
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