Re: Reading empty file (was: Re: /dev/full)
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Dec 1998 21:32:50 GMT
Followup to: <199812241557.MAA01181@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
By author: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> "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.
>
/dev/zero is generally useful.
-hpa
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