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SubjectRe: Is there a "blackhole" /dev/null directory?
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On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:30 +0100, rzryyvzy wrote:
> /dev/null is often very useful, specially if programs force to save data in some file. But some programs like to creates different temporary file names, so /dev/null could no more work.
>
> What is with a "/dev/null"-directory?
> I mean a "blackhole pseudo directory" which eats every write to null.
>
> Here is how it could work:
> mount -t nulldir nulldir /dev/nulldir
>
> Now if a program does a create(2),
> it creates in the memory the file with its fd.
> Then if a program does a write(2) to the fd, it eats the writes and give out fakely it has written the number of bytes.
> When the program calls does a close(2) of the fd, then the complete inode is deleted in the memory.
>
> The directory should be permanently empty except for the inodes with open file descriptors. So only inode information would be temporary saved in this "nulldir tmpfs" directory.
>
> Is there already existing a possibility to create a null directory?

This could be done fairly trivially with FUSE, and IMHO is a good use
for FUSE because since you're just throwing most data away, performance
is not a concern.

-j
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