Re: Reading empty file (was: Re: /dev/full)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:57:29 -0400

"James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com> said:

> Nope. Fuzzy Fox <fox@dallas.net> had it right; reading from /dev/full
> is the same as reading from /dev/zero:

Irrelevant for the original purpose. /dev/null is _guaranteed_ to be there,
/dev/zero almost always is, /dev/full isn't normally found. And for the
purpose of writing scripts/programs the only generally usefull one is
/dev/null.

Please don't forget portability, there are non-linux systems out there.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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