Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:45:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: Need blocking /dev/null |
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > 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 > /dev/zero nor /dev/null block, but is there some other standard device > that would do the job? > > If there isn't, writing such a pseudodevice would be trivial. What > should it be called? Any chance of including that in the kernel?
/dev/never
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