Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Need blocking /dev/null | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:52:21 -0800 (PST) | From | (Marko Rauhamaa) |
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> > I noticed that I need a pseudodevice that opens normally but blocks all > > reads (and writes). The only way out would be through a signal. Neither > > Try using a pipe
You're right. This is what I wanted to do:
while true do ssh -R a:b:c host sleep 10 done </dev/never >/dev/null
But I could do it like this:
while true do sleep 100000 done | while true do ssh -R a:b:c host sleep 10 done >/dev/null
Thank you.
Marko
PS Are /dev/null and /dev/zero also redundant?
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