Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux
Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:53:08 -0800 (PST)
Charles Cazabon writes:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 05:51:39PM +0100, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> >
> >>> Actually, it's all-bits-zero, all-bits-one, all-bits-zero.
> >>
> >> Hmmm I guess we need a /dev/one? (Actually not a bad thing to have)
> >
> > IMHO the name /dev/one would be a bad idea. Becouse this could mean an
> > integer one which is 00000001 for 8-bit, 0000000000000001 for 16-bit, and
> > so on.
>
> Hmmm -- something like /dev/~zero would work, if you can stand non-
> alphanumeric characters in your filenames.
Grrr. We don't need to create a new pseudo-device for every
imaginable stream of identical bytes.
tr '\0' '\377' </dev/zero | whatever needs a stream of \377 bytes
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