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SubjectRe: Need blocking /dev/null
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> How bout just `mkfifo /tmp/blockme`
> and read on /tmp/blockme - just don't write to it!

I don't think that will work, not the same way anyway. The problem is it
will block on open(2) and will never get to read(2).


Marko

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