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From: elko <elko@home.nl>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.nu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need blocking /dev/null
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:03:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01103000034207.13457@ElkOS> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110292144120.1085-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110292144120.1085-100000@localhost.localdomain>

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

-- 
ElkOS: 12:01am up 6 days, 9:32, 3 users, load average: 2.54, 2.40, 2.27
bofhX: appears to be a Slow/Narrow SCSI-0 Interface problem
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-29 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-29 21:07 Need blocking /dev/null Marko Rauhamaa
2001-10-29 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-30  3:52   ` Marko Rauhamaa
2001-10-30  7:02     ` Tim Connors
2001-10-30 16:04       ` Marko Rauhamaa
2001-10-31  0:51     ` Riley Williams
2001-10-31  9:23       ` Ville Herva
2001-10-31 23:13         ` Riley Williams
2001-11-01  0:11           ` Doug McNaught
2001-11-01  7:27             ` Ville Herva
2001-11-01  7:52             ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-11-01 23:51             ` Riley Williams
2001-11-02 19:53               ` Ville Herva
2001-11-02 20:04               ` John Adams
2001-11-02 20:32                 ` Ville Herva
2001-11-02 20:46                   ` Tim Walberg
2001-11-05 22:08                     ` Andreas Schwab
2001-11-01  7:24           ` Ville Herva
2001-10-29 21:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-10-29 23:03   ` elko [this message]
2001-10-29 23:12     ` Mike Fedyk

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