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SubjectRe: How to create a fixed length character/block device/file ?
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:10:00 -0800
Khai Doan <khai@genius.com> wrote:

> Sorry if this is the wrong list. I've search google, but have not found
> solution to my problem.
>
> I have a long running application which split out lots of debugging
> information. I can't redirect the output to a regular file because that
> file would grow and eat up all the diskspace. I can't redirect to
> /dev/null. What I want is the last 1MB of the output before my
> application terminated.

Just pipe the output into a program or perl script which does this. You
don't need a device file.
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