Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:49:18 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some PRs Message-ID: <4105987E.5FC50517@bellatlantic.net> References: <20040718184008.GC57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040719075952.GG57678@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <200407191855.19885.max@love2party.net>
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Max Laier wrote:
>
> On Monday 19 July 2004 16:13, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> The question to me is, do we really want to support (read fertilize) such a
> stupid thing? Given the chance that once we do support it people will use it.
> In my opinion it is bad to integrate something into base that we agree is
> nothing one should ever have created (at least that's my reading of the
> thread so far). I see no user-pessure for this.
I'm about a week behind :-) but here are my 2 cents: it's a VERY useful
device for testing. Not checking the error code of write(), printf()
and such is a typical bug, so making it easy to detect by switching
the output to /dev/full (or creating a symlink to it) is a very
good idea. Like this:
yourprogram >/dev/full \
&& echo "The program does not check for success of write()"
-SB
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