Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:12:43 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Need blocking /dev/null |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:03:42AM +0100, elko wrote: > On Monday 29 October 2001 22:45, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > 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 > > sorry, the bait was too obvious: /dev/microsoft
No,
cat /dev/microsoft > /dev/never
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