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From: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /dev/null: The final frontier
Message-ID: <356@tdi2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 18:49:10 EDT
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Quoted from <7416@elsie.UUCP> ["Re: /dev/null: The final frontier"], by ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)...
+---------------
| I suppose this is already in Version N. . .but what I have a use for every
| month or so is "/dev/full"--so that I can do a dumb timing test this way:
| 
| 	dd if=/dev/full of=/dev/rmt8 bs=20b
| 
| While /dev/null always says "I successfully wrote as many bytes as you asked
| me to", /dev/full would always say "I successfully read as many bytes as you
| asked me to."
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Anyone remember the pseudodevice in CP/M that returned 40 (I think) nulls on
a read?

++Brando
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