Re: /dev/full

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
23 Dec 1998 11:18:56 +0100


Johnny Teveßen <j.tevessen@gmx.net> writes:

|> Quoting Charles Cazabon (charlesc-linux@hal.qcc.sk.ca):
|>
|> > 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.
|>
|> Well, that's actually what I use it for: To have a "file" that gives you
|> 0 bytes and then EOF when read from.

: | whatever

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Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
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