From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 12:17:10 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 2ACB737B405 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:17:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AEB43F93 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0457359 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:17:00 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h15KHrO23574 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:17:53 -0600 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:17:53 -0600 From: Tillman To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why no /dev/one? Message-ID: <20030205141753.D18752@seekingfire.com> References: <3E38E15C.7080302@pantherdragon.org> <20030205201046.GE91374@kyblik.pieskovisko.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030205201046.GE91374@kyblik.pieskovisko.sk>; from frankie@kyblik.pieskovisko.sk on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:10:46PM +0100 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers 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 On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:10:46PM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:25:00AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > Why isn't there a /dev/one device to provide an infinite number of > > all-ones bytes? > And what about /dev/fortytwo? This is IMPORTANT. You can get that with with creative use of "tail" and /dev/twentyfour. -T -- When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man. - Zen saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message