Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:35:14 +0000 | | From | Alan <> | | Subject | Re: How to create a fixed length character/block device/file ? |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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