Re: Need blocking /dev/null

elko
2001-10-29T23:01:50Z

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

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