[wingel@t1.ctrl-c.liu.se]
> [1] Actually /dev/null might be a bad choice since I've seen
> applications that go berzerk when select() always returns
> immediately but the application doesn't know how to cope
> with EOF on standard input.
Since when would an application not cope with EOF on standard input?
What do they do, `while (not_enough_input_yet) scanf()'? They deserve
to lose.
> A device that just does nothing (don't produce any data, just
> throw away any data that it gets and never return EOF) might be
> better.
You'll still break applications -- what if they open it in blocking
mode?
Peter
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