From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 0:25:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920CD37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0199B43F75 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B778E10156 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:25:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91D2AB6A for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:25:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E38E15C.7080302@pantherdragon.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:25:00 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20030119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why no /dev/one? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why isn't there a /dev/one device to provide an infinite number of all-ones bytes? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message