From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 23:56:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95CBB78E; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1827F16FC; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp121-45-78-209.lns20.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.78.209]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s3UNu7Lq021956 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 1 May 2014 09:26:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_3B7802D0-AFEB-4D51-B32A-A00ED205CD95"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: svn commit: r265132 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/null From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <1398869319.22079.54.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:26:05 +0930 Message-Id: <68DC39CD-BB33-46CA-A7CF-51B7D568009E@gsoft.com.au> References: <201404300620.s3U6Kmn6074492@svn.freebsd.org> <1398869319.22079.54.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> To: Ian Lepore X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 23:56:26 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_3B7802D0-AFEB-4D51-B32A-A00ED205CD95 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 1 May 2014, at 0:18, Ian Lepore wrote: >> /dev/full is similar to /dev/zero except it always returns >> ENOSPC when you attempt to write to it. >> > > For some reason this reminded me of something I've been wanting for a > while but never get around to writing... /dev/ones, it's just > like /dev/zero except it returns 0xff bytes. Useful for dd'ing to wipe > out flash-based media. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/79421 :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail=_3B7802D0-AFEB-4D51-B32A-A00ED205CD95 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFTYY2V5ZPcIHs/zowRAqjQAJ45pd5FXaieFtpZK8TJCmnR2g/YKACdGLOP NcJAxtDbBWEQdZd4uULAA9k= =5HSn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_3B7802D0-AFEB-4D51-B32A-A00ED205CD95--