Re: Need blocking /dev/null

Marko Rauhamaa
2001-10-30T03:52:51Z

> > 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
>
> Try using a pipe

You're right. This is what I wanted to do:

while true
do
ssh -R a:b:c host
sleep 10
done </dev/never >/dev/null

But I could do it like this:

while true
do
sleep 100000
done |
while true
do
ssh -R a:b:c host
sleep 10
done >/dev/null

Thank you.

Marko

PS Are /dev/null and /dev/zero also redundant?

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