Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:26:05 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r265132 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/null Message-ID: <68DC39CD-BB33-46CA-A7CF-51B7D568009E@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1398869319.22079.54.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <201404300620.s3U6Kmn6074492@svn.freebsd.org> <1398869319.22079.54.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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--Apple-Mail=_3B7802D0-AFEB-4D51-B32A-A00ED205CD95 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 1 May 2014, at 0:18, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: >> /dev/full is similar to /dev/zero except it always returns >> ENOSPC when you attempt to write to it. >> > > For some reason this reminded me of something I've been wanting for a > while but never get around to writing... /dev/ones, it's just > like /dev/zero except it returns 0xff bytes. Useful for dd'ing to wipe > out flash-based media. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/79421 :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail=_3B7802D0-AFEB-4D51-B32A-A00ED205CD95 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFTYY2V5ZPcIHs/zowRAqjQAJ45pd5FXaieFtpZK8TJCmnR2g/YKACdGLOP NcJAxtDbBWEQdZd4uULAA9k= =5HSn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_3B7802D0-AFEB-4D51-B32A-A00ED205CD95--
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