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From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: /dev/gzero vs /dev/zero
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    0n Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:53:37AM +0800, LI Xin wrote: 

    >Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
    >> Why would I use one over the other ?
    >
    >No, gzero is used with geom_zero and you should not use it directly.


Huh ? I know this ? But why would one use gzero and not /dev/zero ?

 -aW

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