Re: /dev/full

Charles Cazabon (charlesc-linux@hal.qcc.sk.ca)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:04:05 -0600


Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote:
> How about /dev/minusone :-) ?
> Or /dev/allones ...
>
> Whatever happened to /dev/full?

Er, I thought the point of /dev/full was to return ENOSPACE (or whatever the
disk-full error code is) when you attempted to write to it...I don't think
you get anything from it when you try to read.

Charles Cazabon

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Charles Cazabon                     <charlesc-linux@qcc.sk.ca>
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